Accomplish vs. Succeed — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Accomplish and Succeed
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Accomplish
To succeed in doing (a task, for example); carry out or complete.
Succeed
To come next in time or order
She fell sick, and what succeeded was an outpouring of concern from her fans.
Accomplish
(transitive) To finish successfully.
Succeed
To replace another in office or position
The prince succeeded to the throne.
Accomplish
(transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
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Succeed
To accomplish something desired or intended
"Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed" (Emily Dickinson).
Accomplish
(transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
To accomplish a design, an object, a promise
Succeed
(Obsolete) To pass to a person by way of inheritance.
Accomplish
To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
Succeed
To come after (something) in time or order; follow
Winter succeeds autumn.
Accomplish
To gain; to obtain.
Succeed
To come after and take the place of
The heir succeeded the king.
Accomplish
To fill out a form.
Succeed
(transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.
Autumn succeeds summer.
Accomplish
To complete, as time or distance.
That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
He had accomplished half a league or more.
Succeed
(transitive) 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.
Take the place of
Accomplish
To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me.
Succeed
(intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; often with to.
Accomplish
To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
The armorers accomplishing the knights.
It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.
Succeed
(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.
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.
Accomplish
To gain; to obtain.
He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland.
To work in close design by fraud or guileWhat force effected not.
The Saints, like stars, around his seatPerform their courses still.
Succeed
(intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died.
Accomplish
Put in effect;
Carry out a task
Execute the decision of the people
He actioned the operation
Succeed
(intransitive) 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.
Accomplish
To gain with effort;
She achieved her goal despite setbacks
Succeed
(intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
Voted most likely to succeed
Succeed
To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).
Succeed
(transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
Succeed
(intransitive) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; often with to.
Succeed
To fall heir to; to inherit.
Succeed
To go down or near with to.
Succeed
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
As he saw him nigh succeed.
Succeed
To fall heir to; to inherit.
Succeed
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse.
Succeed
To support; to prosper; to promote.
Succeed my wish and second my design.
Succeed
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.
If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership.
Enjoy till I returnShort pleasures; for long woes are to succeed!
Succeed
To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
No woman shall succeed in Salique land.
Succeed
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
Succeed
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without ambition.
Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but neither will it succeed in English.
Succeed
To go under cover.
Will you to the cooler cave succeed!
Succeed
Attain success or reach a desired goal;
The enterprise succeeded
We succeeded in getting tickets to the show
She struggled to overcome her handicap and won
Succeed
Be the successor (of);
Carter followed Ford
Will Charles succeed to the throne?
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