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Succeeding   /səksˈidɪŋ/   Listen
Succeeding

adjective
1.
Coming after or following.
2.
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving.  Synonyms: future, next.


Succeed

verb
(past & past part. succeeded; pres. part. succeeding)
1.
Attain success or reach a desired goal.  Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, win.  "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show" , "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won"
2.
Be the successor (of).  Synonyms: come after, follow.  "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"



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"Succeeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... perhaps been the source of the marvellous adventures which succeeding poets and romancers have accumulated around the names of Charlemagne and his Paladins, or Peers. But Ariosto and the other Italian poets have drawn from different sources, and doubtless often from their own invention, numberless other stories which they attribute to the same ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... a fair sample of what took place at our shop every succeeding day. My mother made few bad debts, and rapidly added to her savings. My aunt Milly still balancing between the certainty of Lieutenant Flat and the chance of Captain Bridgeman, and I dividing my time and talents between learning and ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... go back. 'They are dead that sought the young child's life,' is the encouragement to Joseph. It sums up in one sentence the failure of the first attempt, and is like an epitaph cut on a tombstone for a man yet living,—a prophecy of the end of all succeeding efforts to crush Christ and thwart His work. 'The dreaded infant's hand' is mightier than all mailed fists, or fingers that hold a pen. Christ lives and grows; Herod ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren
... which started occasionally from Harvey Dole's corner, and was echoed faintly from other quarters of the room, only heightened, by, contrast, the effect of the succeeding gloom. ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... the spoilt child of English pastimes, but has lived on in spite of royal proclamations and the protests of peace-loving citizens who objected to the noise, rough play, and other vagaries of the early votaries of the game. Edward II. and succeeding monarchs regarded it as a "useless and idle sport," which interfered with the practice of archery, and therefore ought to be shunned by all loyal subjects. The violence displayed at the matches is evident from the records which have come ...
— Old English Sports • Peter Hampson Ditchfield


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