succeed
English
Verb
(en verb )
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.
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
(obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
- So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
* Sir Thomas Browne
- Destructive effects succeeded the curse.
* 1919 ,
- Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.
To support; to prosper; to promote.
* Dryden
- Succeed my wish and second my design.
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.
# To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
To go under cover.
Antonyms
* (follow in order) precede
* fail, fall on one’s face
Derived terms
* nothing succeeds like success
* succedent
* succeedingly
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achieve
English
Verb
(achiev)
To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
* I. Taylor
- Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
- Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve […].
To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
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* (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night), II-v
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
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- Thou hast achieved our liberty.
(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.
* Prior
- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.
Synonyms
* accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplish
Derived terms
* achievement
* achiever
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