Succeed
[sək'siːd] or [sək'sid]
Definition
(verb.) be the successor (of); 'Carter followed Ford'; 'Will Charles succeed to the throne?'.
(verb.) attain success or reach a desired goal; 'The enterprise succeeded'; 'We succeeded in getting tickets to the show'; 'she struggled to overcome her handicap and won'.
Checker: Sigmund--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
(v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.
(v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
(v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
(v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
(v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
(v. i.) To go under cover.
Editor: Orville
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Follow, come after, be subsequent to.[2]. Take the place of, assume the office of.
v. n. [1]. Follow, ensue, come afterwards, come subsequently.[2]. Prosper, flourish, prevail, thrive, hit, make a hit, come on, be successful, meet with success, go on well, go on swimmingly, have a run of luck, hit the right nail on the head, turn up trumps, have the game in one's hands.
Edited by Julia
Definition
v.t. to come after to follow up or in order: to follow: to take the place of.—v.i. to follow in order: to take the place of: to obtain one's wish or accomplish what is attempted: to end with advantage.—adjs. Succeed′able capable of success; Succeed′ant (her.) following one another.—ns. Succeed′er one who succeeds: a successor; Success′ act of succeeding or state of having succeeded: the prosperous termination of anything attempted: one who or that which succeeds a successful person or affair.—adj. Success′ful resulting in success: having the desired effect or termination: prosperous.—adv. Success′fully.—ns. Success′fulness state of being successful: success; Succes′sion act of succeeding or following after: series of persons or things following each other in time or place: series of descendants: race: (agri.) rotation as of crops: right to take possession: in Roman and Scots law the taking of property by one person in place of another.—adj. Succes′sional existing in a regular succession or in order.—adv. Succes′sionally.—n. Succes′sionist one who regards only that priesthood as valid which can be traced in a direct line of succession from the apostles.—adj. Succes′sive following in succession or in order.—adv. Succes′sively.—n. Succes′siveness.—adj. Success′less without success: unprosperous.—ns. Succes′sor one who succeeds or comes after: one who takes the place of another; Succes′sorship.—adj. Succes′sory.—Succession duty a tax imposed on any succession to property varying with the degree of relationship.—Apostolical succession (see Apostle).
Checker: Sinclair
Examples
- I had seven different schemes for getting a glimpse of that telegram, but I could hardly hope to succeed the very first time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the contrary, said Holmes quietly; I have every reason to believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And I should never succeed in anything by dint of drudgery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I tried to convince her so, but I didn't succeed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It may have been too that in this she did not quite succeed, for it is very difficult to resist confidence, and she knew she had Georgiana's. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If I, as a honest tradesman, succeed in providing a jinte of meat or two, none of your not touching of it, and sticking to bread. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But (with an affectionate smile) let him succeed at last, Fanny, let him succeed at last. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Your mother succeeded; she forgot it soon. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Another pause therefore of many minutes' duration, succeeded this speech, and Lucy was still the first to end it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He made experiments, and at last succeeded in rendering the copper negatively electrical by the use of small pieces of tin, zinc, or iron nails. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But I fell asleep before I had succeeded, and dreamed of the days when I lived in my godmother's house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Moving far to Sherman's right, he succeeded in reaching the railroad about Big Shanty, and moved north on it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His health soon gave out, when he was succeeded by Captain Comstock, also of the Engineer Corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The artist studies the progress of his own attempts to see what succeeds and what fails. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mrs. Briefless's papa succeeds; so you see she will be a baronet's daughter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If the project succeeds, they are commonly at first very high. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In a profession, where twenty fail for one that succeeds, that one ought to gain all that should have been gained by the unsuccessful twenty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If Hunter succeeds in reaching Lynchburg, that will be lost to him also. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Everything succeeds with me to-night, he said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- On succeeding days longer flights were made, one of two miles at a speed of forty-six miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A twilight calm of happiness then succeeding to their radiant noon, they remained at peace, until a strange voice in the room startled them both. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The succeeding half-hour's conversation was not of a nature to calm his perturbed spirit. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But I shall be forgotten when they _are_ married, was the cruel succeeding thought. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In this way he came very near succeeding in getting to his provision trains and eluding us with at least part of his army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the succeeding years of plenty, it was more difficult to get labourers and servants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Such was the general type of phonograph used for exhibition purposes in America and other countries in the three or four years immediately succeeding the date of this invention. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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