succeeds

Verb

succeed (third-person singular simple present succeeds, present participle succeeding, simple past and past participle succeeded)

1. (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.
   • Autumn succeeds summer.
2. (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
   • The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.

   Synonyms:

   take the place of, come after

3. (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
   • Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 49”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
4. (intransitive) 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).
   • Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne.

   Synonyms:

   supersede

   1. (intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
      • Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died.
5. (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
   • The persecution of any righteous practice has never succeeded in the face of history; in fact, it can expedite the collapse of the persecutory regime.

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