Succeeds (IPA: /səkˈsidz/)
| Succeed (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. |
| Succeed (v. t.) |
To fall heir to; to inherit. |
| Succeed (v. t.) |
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue. |
| Succeed (v. t.) |
To support; to prosper; to promote. |
| Succeed (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. |
| Succeed (v. i.) |
Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant. |
| Succeed (v. i.) |
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve. |
| Succeed (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. |
| Succeed (v. i.) |
To go under cover. |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " (With Sazh speechless, Lightning succeeds in starting up the airship.)" - Final Fantasy XIII |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work." - Work |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance." - Napoleon I of France |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Creation smiles in various beauty gay While day to night, and night succeeds day" - Phillis Wheatley |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Government succeeds by failing: the more incompetence, the greater the potential reward in the arena of the public sector." - L. K. Samuels |
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