Dictionary Definition
succeed
Verb
1 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" [syn:
win, come
through, bring
home the bacon, deliver
the goods] [ant: fail]
2 be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford";
"Will Charles succeed to the throne?" [syn: come after,
follow] [ant: precede]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Latin succederePronunciation
-
- Rhymes: -iːd
Verb
- To follow in order;
to come next after; hence, to take the place of
- the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne
- autumn succeeds summer.
- the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne
- To fall heir to; to inherit.
- To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
- To support; to prosper; to promote.
- 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.
- Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
- To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
- 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.
- To go under cover.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
To follow in order; to come next after; hence,
to take the place of
- German: nachfolgen
- Japanese: 継ぐ, 継承する
- Slovene: naslediti, slediti
- Spanish: seguir en orden
To fall heir to; to inherit
- German: nachfolgen
- Japanese: 継ぐ, 相続する
- Slovene: naslediti
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent
to; to follow; to pursue
- Japanese: 継ぐ, 継承する
- Slovene: slediti
To support; to prosper; to promote
- Japanese: 継ぐ, 継承する
- Slovene: uspeti
To come in the place of another person, thing,
or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course
of things
- Japanese: 続く, 継承する
- Slovene: naslediti
Specifically: To ascend the throne after the
removal the death of the occupant
- Slovene: naslediti
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the
same family; to devolve
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what
is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or
termination; to be successful
- Czech: uspět
- German: erfolgreich sein, Erfolg haben
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: سهرکهوتن
- Slovene: uspeti
To go under cover
- ttbc Dutch: navolgen (3), slagen (8), lukken (8)
- ttbc French: succéder, réussir (8)
- ttbc Italian: succedere
- ttbc Portuguese: Conseguir
- ttbc Spanish: conseguir
- ttbc Swedish: lyckas (8)
See also
Extensive Definition
thumb|250px|Toyota SucceedThe Succeed is a small five-door
wagon sold by Toyota in Japan.
Designed for commercial use, it is a simple design, and was
introduced in August 2002. A more basic version for delivery use is
known as the Toyota
Probox.
Engine: 1NZ-FE
External links
succeed in German: Toyota Succeed
succeed in Japanese: トヨタ・サクシード
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accomplish, achieve, act for, advance, arrive, attain, attend, be a gas, be a hit, be a
success, be blooded, be successful, be victorious, bill, bomb, boom, break the record, bring off,
bring through, c, carry off,
catch on, change hands, change ownership, change places with,
clear, clear the hurdle,
click, come after, come
along, come by, come in for, come into, come off, come on, compass, connect, conquer, consummate, contrive, crowd out, crown with
success, cut out, cut the mustard, deal with, descend, devolve, discharge, dispatch, displace, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick, do
well, double for, dow,
dramatize, effect, effectuate, emanate, enact, engineer, enjoy prosperity,
ensue, execute, fail, farewell, feature, fetch, fill in for, flop, flourish, follow, follow after, follow up,
fulfill, gain, get ahead, get along, get by,
get on, get on swimmingly, get on well, ghost, ghostwrite, go, go after, go great guns, go off,
go on, go over, go over big, go to town, go well, graduate, hack it, headline, heir, hit the mark, inherit, issue, knock off, make, make a hit, make good, make
headway, make it, make out, make progress, make the grade, manage, manage somehow, meet with
success, melodramatize, mount, muddle through, negotiate, open, open a show, overtake, pan out, pass, pass on, perform, pinch-hit, polish off,
premiere, present, prevail, preview, produce, progress, prosper, prove out, pull off,
put across, put away, put on, put over, put through, qualify, reach, realize, relieve, replace, represent, result, scenarize, score, scrape along, set the
stage, spell, spell off,
stage, stand in for,
star, subrogate, substitute for,
succeed in, succeed to, supersede, supervene, supplant, swap places with,
swing, swing the deal,
take, take care of,
theatricalize,
thrive, track, trail, triumph, try out, turn out well,
turn the trick, understudy for, win, win out, work, work out, work well, work
wonders, worry along