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acceed

acceed is the obsolete form of accede.

Meaning of accede

Verb

accede (third-person singular simple present accedes, present participle acceding, simple past and past participle acceded)

  1. (intransitive) To agree or assent [with to ‘a proposal, a request’]; to give way.
    • to accede to a request
    Antonyms:
    refuse
  2. (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position) [with to].
    • the house of Hanover acceded to the English throne
  3. (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty [with to].
    • to accede to the European Union
  4. (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
    Antonyms:
    leave, secede, split off

Forms of acceed

third-person singular presentacceeds
present participleacceeding
past participleacceeded
pastacceeded

Questions about acceed

What is acceed the obsolete form of?
Acceed is the obsolete form of accede.

Words near acceed in the dictionary

  1. acceders
  2. accedes
  3. accedeth
  4. accedie
  5. acceding
  6. acceed
  7. acceeded
  8. acceeding
  9. acceeds
  10. accel
  11. accel.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acceed (page history and authors); accede (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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