Succeed

Quick meaning: Succeed is a verb meaning (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.

Meaning

(transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
2. (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
3. (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
4. (intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
5. (intransitive, dated) To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).
6. (transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
7. (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).

Example Sentences

Autumn succeeds summer.

Destructive effects […] succeeded the curse.

The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.

Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne.

Word Forms

• succeeds
• succeeding
• succeeded
• succede

Synonyms for succeed

Depending on context, synonyms include flourish, ensue, follow, follow on.

Antonyms for succeed

Common opposites include precede, fail, miscarry.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include follow, succession, result, effective, successor, happen.

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