different between succeed vs succeeded
succeed
English
Alternative forms
- succede (dated)
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”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?k?si?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
- Hyphenation: suc?ceed
Verb
succeed (third-person singular simple present succeeds, present participle succeeding, simple past and past participle succeeded)
- (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.
- (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
- Synonym: take the place of
- (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
- (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 49
- Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 49
- To support; to prosper; to promote.
- Succeed my wish and second my design.
- (intransitive) 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.
- To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
- To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
- To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
- To go under cover.
- (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
- (obsolete, rare) To ensue with an intended consequence or effect.
Synonyms
- (follow in order): come after; see also Thesaurus:succeed
- (support; prosper; promote): do well, flourish; see also Thesaurus:prosper
Antonyms
- (follow in order): precede; see also Thesaurus:precede
- (obtain the object desired; accomplish what is attempted or intended): fail, fall on one's face
- (support; prosper; promote): fail
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- succede
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succeeded
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?k?si?d?d/
Verb
succeeded
- simple past tense and past participle of succeed
succeeded From the web:
- what succeeded the roman empire
- what succeeded in china in 1965
- what succeeded the qing dynasty
- what succeeded the sr-71
- what succeeded the iron age
- what succeeded the renaissance
- what succeeded feudalism
- what succeeded the kgb
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