succeed

verb

(intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.

(intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.

(intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).

(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).

(transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.

(intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.

(transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.

(transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.

(intransitive) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).

Misconstruction of secede. [(intransitive) To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.]

(transitive, obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.

(intransitive, dated) To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).

(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To go down or near (with to).

Roots

subsuc- · Latin · under, below cedo-ceed · Latin · go, yield

Synonyms for succeed

winv accomplishv achievev followv thrivev prosperv failv attainv conquerv fulfillv prevailv overtakev

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