Definition of succeed

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Succeed (v. i.) 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..

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Escheatage :: Escheatage (n.) The right of succeeding to an escheat.
Unsucceedable :: Unsucceedable (a.) Not able or likely to succeed.
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..
Succeed :: 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..
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..
Push :: Push (v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed..
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..
Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
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..
Birthnight :: Birthnight (n.) The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.
Hydra :: Hydra (n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster..
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..
Succeedant :: Succeed (v. i.) To go under cover.
Succeeder :: Succeedant (a.) Succeeding one another; following.
Sequent :: Sequent (a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.
Succedaneum :: Succedaneum (n.) One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute.
Prime :: Prime (a.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds..
Cotton :: Cotton (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.
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
Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..
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