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verb

Succeed v. t. (past & past part. succeeded; pres. part. succeeding)

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. "As he saw him nigh succeed."

To fall heir to; to inherit. (Obs. & R.)

To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue. "Destructive effects... succeeded the curse."

To support; to prosper; to promote. (R.) "Succeed my wish and second my design."

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. "If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership." "Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed!"

Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant. "No woman shall succeed in Salique land."

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. "It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition." "Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English."

To go under cover. (A latinism. Obs.) "Will you to the cooler cave succeed!"

Synonyms: To follow; pursue. See Follow.

noun

Succeeding n. The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 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 ...

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... 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. ...

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