succeedverb
uk/səkˈsiːd/us/səkˈsiːd/succeed verb (ACHIEVE SOMETHING)
B1 [ I ] If you succeed, you achieve something that you have been aiming for, and if a plan or piece of work succeeds, it has the results that you wanted:
She's been trying to pass her driving test for six years and she's finally succeeded.
You need to be pretty tough to succeed in the property world.
The campaign has certainly succeeded in raising public awareness of the issue.
humorous Richard succeeded in offending (= managed unintentionally to offend) just about everybody in the room!
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- He has a desperate desire to succeed.
- She has the drive to succeed.
- There is no reason why we shouldn't succeed.
- Most couples would agree that for a marriage to succeed, both parties have to work at it.
- He is unlikely to succeed in getting his bill through Congress, however worthy it is.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- sew sth up
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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succeed verb (FOLLOW)
[ I or T ] to take an official job or position after someone else:
He succeeded his father as editor of the paper.
When the Queen dies, her eldest son will succeed to the throne.
to come after another person or thing in time:
In the weeks that succeeded, five more patients showed similar symptoms.
Almost from its beginnings, New York has produced succeeding generations of intellectuals.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargain sth away
- change over
- change places idiom
- fill
- name
- part exchange
- pinch-hit
- pre-empt
- proxy
- rep
- represent
- reserve
- sit
- substitution
- succession
- supersede
- supplant
- swap
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Occurring and happening
Idiom(s)
if at first you don't succeed, try, try again