succeed

A2 verb
Word forms
succeeds, succeeded, succeeding

Meanings and translation

The translation of this word is being prepared.

  • to obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful
  • To fall heir to; to inherit
  • To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue
  • To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things
  • Specifically: 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