Succeed Succeeded Verb Follow Obsolete B Sb American

suc·ceed
\\sək-ˈsēd\\ verbintransitive verb
1.
  a. to come next after another in office or position or in possession of an estate; especially : to inherit sovereignty, rank, or title
  b. to follow after another in order
2.
  a. to turn out well
  b. to attain a desired object or end
      students who succeed in college
3. obsolete : to pass to a person by inheritance
transitive verb
1. to follow in sequence and especially immediately
2. to come after as heir or successor
Synonyms: see
• suc·ceed·er noun

succeed
  late 14c., "come next after, take the place of another," from O.Fr. succeder (14c.), from L. succedere "come after, go near to," from sub "next to, after" + cedere "go, move" (see cede). The sense of "turn out well, have a favorable result" is first recorded late 15c., with ellipsis of adverb (succeed well).

☞ succeed
suc·ceed / sEk5si:d / verb1. [V] ~ (in doing sth) to achieve sth that you have been trying to do or get; to have the result or effect that was intended
   达到目的；实现目标；办到；做成:
   Our plan succeeded.
   我们的计划成功了。
   He succeeded in getting a place at art school.
   他被艺术学校录取了。
   I tried to discuss it with her but only succeeded in making her angry (= I failed and did the opposite of what I intended).
   我本想跟她商量,结果却把她惹火了。
⇨ see also

success

(1)
2. [V] ~ (in sth) | ~ (as sth) to be successful in your job, earning money, power, respect, etc.
   成功；有成就；有作为:
   You will have to work hard if you are to succeed.
   要想有所作为,你必须苦干。
   She doesn't have the ruthlessness required to succeed in business.
   要在生意场上干出一番名堂,她缺乏必要的冷酷心肠。
   He had hoped to succeed as a violinist.
   他曾希望做一名有成就的小提琴家。
⇨ see also

success

(1)
3. [VN] to come next after sb / sth and take their / its place or position
   接替；继任；随后出现
   SYN 

follow

:
   Who succeeded Kennedy as President?
   接替肯尼迪任总统的是谁？
   Their early success was succeeded by a period of miserable failure.
   他们起初获得成功,但随后有一段惨痛失败的时期。
   Strands of DNA are reproduced through succeeding generations.
   DNA (脱氧核糖核酸)链通过后代得到复制。
⇨ see also

succession

(3)
4. [V] ~ (to sth) to gain the right to a title, property, etc. when sb dies
   继承:
   She succeeded to the throne (= became queen) in 1558.
   她于 1558 年继承王位。
⇨ see also

succession

(3)
 IDIOMS 
▪ nothing succeeds like suc'cess    (saying) when you are successful in six area of your life, it often leads to success in other areas
   一事成,百事顺

succeed verb

suc·ceed
\səkˈsēd sometimes sik-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English succeden, from Latin succedere to go up, follow after, follow, succeed, from sub- up, after + cedere to go, proceed, yield — more at ,
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to come next after or replace another in an office, position, or role or in possession of an estate : fill a vacancy in an inherited, elective, or appointive position
  < upon the death of his father he succeeded to a considerable fortune and to his father's position as rector — J.D.Wade >
 specifically : to inherit sovereignty, rank, or title
  < upon the death of the president the vice-president would succeed >
  < an instructor in biology … before succeeding to the chairmanship of the department of biology — Current Biography >
 b. : to follow or take place after another especially in a natural, prescribed, or necessary order, course of events, or development
  < one idea would succeed to another with a rush — Osbert Sitwell >
  < slate has succeeded to thatch, and brick to timber — T.B.Macaulay >
  < the succeeding fifteen years … were uneventful — J.C.Fitzpatrick >
2.
 a. : to turn out well : result favorably according to plans or desires
  < the formula and ingredients that finally succeeded remain the top company secrets — Monsanto Magazine >
 b. : to attain a desired object or end : accomplish what is attempted or intended : be successful
  < succeeded in regaining the offensive after a smashing defeat — Reporter >
  < mental abilities high enough to enable them to succeed in college — Clearing House >
 c. : to attain or be in a thriving, prosperous, or popular state
  < will produce high quality grapes for wine on gravels where hardly any other crop will succeed — G.G.Weigend >
  < succeeds with our public — E.R.Bentley >
3. obsolete : to turn out : ,
 < whether the manner of their operation would succeed contrary — Richard Waller >
4. obsolete :
 < will you to the cooler cave succeed — John Dryden >
5. obsolete : to become the property of a person through inheritance :
 < a ring … that downward hath succeeded in his house from son to son — Shakespeare >
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to be the event or thing immediately following on or one of the items or events following upon in an ordered sequence or chain of events
  < simplicity of concept succeeds complexity of calculation — E.T.Bell >
  < the past is merely a series of messes, succeeding one another by discoverable laws — E.M.Forster >
  < the cathedral succeeded a frame building — American Guide Series: Arkansas >
 b. : to come after or follow in an office, position, role, or title : fill a vacancy as heir or elected or appointed successor to
  < succeeded her father as keeper of the lighthouse — American Guide Series: Rhode Island >
2. obsolete : to fall heir to :
3. obsolete : to follow the example of
 < succeed thy father in manners as in shape — Shakespeare >
4. : to make successful : cause to prosper
Synonyms:
 , , , and can mean in common to attain the desired end, or increase or enlarge in that attainment. means to gain one's purpose
  < succeed in passing a civil service examination >
  < succeed in business >
  < succeed in becoming president >
  < this government succeeded for seventy years — J.P.Boyd >
  implies continued success
  < if a genuine democratic revolution should prosper — H.N.Brailsford >
  < education prospers by economy — R.W.Livingstone >
  < the oyster-fishing industry that prospered here in the middle-nineteenth century — American Guide Series: New York City >
  adds to the idea of vigorous growth
  < dictatorship thrives on poverty and war thrives on dictatorship — New Republic >
  < the era in which most American firms were born and thrived — C.F.Robinson >
  < the lumber industry throve during the boom days by meeting the needs of rush building — American Guide Series: Texas >
  suggests a thriving or prospering, especially during a period when the thing is at the peak of its development or productivity
  < if physics and chemistry and biology have flourished, morals, religion, and aesthetics have withered — J.W.Krutch >
  < three expensive but flourishing weeklies devoted to absolutely nothing but the life of the rich and the titled — Aldous Huxley >
  < the demagogue flourishes most luxuriantly where negligence is flagrant and the abuse of power is arrogant — A.W.Long >

Synonym: see in addition .