Definition of succeed

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Succeed (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..

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Take :: Take (v. i.) To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
Unsucceedable :: Unsucceedable (a.) Not able or likely to succeed.
Desudation :: Desudation (n.) A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples..
Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
Rustle :: Rustle (v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
Sequence :: Sequence (n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
After :: After (a.) Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life..
Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years..
Alternate :: Alternate (v. i.) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other..
Diphyodont :: Diphyodont (a.) Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; -- opposed to monophyodont..
Wake :: Wake (n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess..
Obtain :: Obtain (v. i.) To prevail; to succeed.
Succeeding :: Succeeder (n.) A successor.
Cotton :: Cotton (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.
Succiduous :: Successor (n.) One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king..
Escheatage :: Escheatage (n.) The right of succeeding to an escheat.
Prove :: Prove (v. i.) To succeed; to turn out as expected.
Prosper :: Prosper (v. i.) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
Childe :: Childe (n.) A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland..
Posterity :: Posterity (n.) Succeeding generations; future times.
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