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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Successional :: Succession (n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Trill :: Trill (v. i.) To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle..
Alternate :: Alternate (v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly..
Rustle :: Rustle (v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
Schema :: Schema (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect..
Youth :: Youth (n.) The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood..
Perseverance :: Perseverance (n.) Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism..
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit..
Strobila :: Strobila (n.) A form of the larva of certain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyrae, or young medusae..
Birthday :: Birthday (n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth..
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..
Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal..
Subrotund :: Subrogation (n.) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor..
H :: H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with the mouth organs in the same position as that of the succeeding vowel. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, /, as in shall, thing, /ine (for zh see /274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that of tsh, as in ch
Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office..
Superinspect :: Superinjection (n.) An injection succeeding another.
Afterpains :: Afterpains (n. pl.) The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth..
Alliteration :: Alliteration (n.) The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -.
Succession :: Succession (n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters..
Prime :: Prime (a.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds..
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