succeed
IPA: sʌksˈid
verb
- (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.
- (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
- (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
- (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).
- (intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
- (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
- (intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
- (intransitive, dated) To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).
- (transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
- (intransitive) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To go down or near (with to).
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Examples of "succeed" in Sentences
- The plan succeeds and the squid appears dead.
- The raid succeeds in obliterating the factory.
- The scheme seemed flawless and easy to succeed at.
- Booth was the only one of the assassins to succeed.
- This allows the adversary to succeed half of the time.
- The hunger to succeed is yet again a measureless hunger.
- He wants to succeed, himself, for the sake of the demesne.
- “The only way to succeed is to be completely transparent”.
- Ingenuity and teamwork are the skills necessary to succeed.
- The way to succeed is to take the source material seriously.
- The safest way to succeed is to repeat what others are saying.
- If the hostile neighbors succeed, it is impossible to follow the dictum.
- It did not succeed because of the unwillingness of the Belgian government.
- Seems that a lot of you out there have realized that one of the best ways to succeed is to simply refuse to quit.
- Test scores seem like a bad proxy; people score well and don’t succeed at life; and people score poorly and ’succeed’.
- Perhaps one way for a magazine or newspaper to succeed is to build a tribe around a unique value proposition that can only be accessed if you read a hard copy.
- In a knowledge economy, many leaders believe the best way to succeed is to have the best people -- and that the best way to get them is to hire them away from competitors.
- Another way to succeed is to educate people about what the Bill of Rights said and to instill values that lead most to the most libertarian readings of those rights, and do one's very best to marginalize those voices that look to erode civil liberties accretionally.