Word
Succeed
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
suc-ceed
Definition
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To fall heir to; to inherit.
- v. t. - To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to
follow; to pursue.
- v. t. - To support; to prosper; to promote.
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal
the death of the occupant.
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