succeed

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Verb

1. To follow something in sequence or time.
   • Autumn succeeds summer.
2. To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
   • The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.
   • After a contentious election, Jones succeeded Smith as president of the republic.
3. To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; .
4. 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; .
   • Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne.
   • So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, the crown (or: property) falls to me.
   • Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died.
5. To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
   • Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died.
6. To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
   • The persecution of any righteous practice has never succeeded in the face of history; in fact, it can expedite the collapse of the persecutory regime.
   • She succeeded in her efforts to repair the tank.
7. To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
   • voted most likely to succeed
8. To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).
9. To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
10. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; .
11. To fall heir to; to inherit.
12. To go down or near .

Verb

1. Misconstruction of secede.

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