succeed
To follow something in sequence or time.
Verb 4 meanings
To follow something in sequence or time.
“Autumn succeeds summer.”
To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
“The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.”
To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
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).
“Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne.”
Etymology
From Old French succeder, from Latin succedere (“to go under, go from under, come under, approach, follow, take the place of, receive by succession, prosper, be successful”). Partly displaced English speed, of which the original sense “to succeed” only survives in a few fossilized expressions such as Godspeed.
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SUCCEED at a glance
SUCCEED has 7 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (S 1 + U 1 + C 3 + C 3 + E 1 + E 1 + D 2) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,332 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with succeed
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