'Succeed' definitions:
Definition of 'succeed'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods] [ant: fail, go wrong, miscarry]
verb
Be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?" [syn: succeed, come after, follow] [ant: come before, precede]
Definition of 'Succeed'
From: GCIDE
- Succeed \Suc*ceed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Succeeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Succeeding.] [L. succedere, successum; sub under + cedere to go, to go along, approach, follow, succeed: cf. F. succ['e]der. See Cede, and cf. Success.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- As he saw him nigh succeed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fall heir to; to inherit. [Obs. & R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue. [1913 Webster]
- Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To support; to prosper; to promote. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Succeed my wish and second my design. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Succeed'
From: GCIDE
- Succeed \Suc*ceed"\, v. i.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant. [1913 Webster]
- No woman shall succeed in Salique land. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To go under cover. [A latinism. Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Will you to the cooler cave succeed! --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To follow; pursue. See Follow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'succeed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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