Succeeded vs. Succeed

Succeededverb

simple past tense and past participle of succeed

Succeedverb

To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.

‘The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.’; ‘Autumn succeeds summer.’;

Succeedverb

To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.

‘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.’;

Succeedverb

To fall heir to; to inherit.

‘So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.’;

Succeedverb

To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

Succeedverb

To support; to prosper; to promote.

Succeedverb

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.

Succeedverb

To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

Succeedverb

To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.

Succeedverb

To go under cover.

Succeedverb

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.’;

Succeedverb

To fall heir to; to inherit.

Succeedverb

To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

‘Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse.’;

Succeedverb

To support; to prosper; to promote.

‘Succeed my wish and second my design.’;

Succeedverb

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!’;

Succeedverb

To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

‘No woman shall succeed in Salique land.’;

Succeedverb

To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.

Succeedverb

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.’;

Succeedverb

To go under cover.

‘Will you to the cooler cave succeed!’;

Succeedverb

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’;

Succeedverb

be the successor (of);

‘Carter followed Ford’; ‘Will Charles succeed to the throne?’;