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