Word Finder - succeed

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To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.

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Autumn succeeds summer.

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To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.

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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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To fall heir to; to inherit.

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So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.

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To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

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To support; to prosper; to promote.

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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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To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.

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To go under cover.

If I succeed, I want my powers back.

He didn't succeed in gaining custody.

If you succeed, you leave.

He did not succeed in all that he designed; but he did a great part of his work.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?

In 1713 he was appointed to succeed his father as professor of hydrography.

If you succeed, you—and everyone else—will have their powers returned.

The Crusade had failed - failed because a leaderless army, torn by political dissensions and fighting on a foreign soil, could not succeed against forces united by religious zeal under the banner of a leader like Saladin.

Especially, I want to succeed spectacularly with the type of case we handled today.

But the treatment of instruments in Bach and Handel has a radical difference from that of the art which was soon to succeed it.

All that do not happen to attach themselves to a bee of the genus Anthophora perish, but those that succeed in reaching the right host are carried to the nest, and as the bee lays an egg in the cell the triungulin slips off her body on to the egg, which floats on the surface of the honey.

The farmer therefore arranges his cropping in such a way that roots, or leguminous crops, succeed the cereal crops.

After a great deal of tinkering and trying, they did succeed in making two paddle wheels.

This time, I'll succeed.

To succeed the parliamentary soldiers must also be inspired by some great principle, and this was now found in religion.

He'll succeed, if you don't bring them here, and things will get bad fast.

In 1868 the term of General Mitre came to an end, and Doctor Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a native of San Juan, was quietly elected to succeed him.

He was appointed in 1911 to succeed Earl Grey as governor-general of Canada, retiring from this office in 1916.

The men of Judah and Benjamin did not succeed in getting full possession of the place, and the Jebusites still held it when David became king of Israel.

Her method might not succeed so completely in the hands of any one else.

It didn't seem possible for her to succeed at Xander's latest trial, and the consequences were far greater than anything she imagined dealing with.

He did not, however, succeed in obtaining a call to any church, and for some little time his future was unsettled.

North of that river the coast is low-lying and bordered by sand-lunes, to which succeed on the Strait of Dover the cliffs in the neighborhood of the port of Boulogne and the marshes and sand-dunes of Flanders, with the ports of Calais and Dunkirk, the latter the principal French port on the NOrth Sea.

While he did not succeed in preventing the French occupation of Mexico or the escape of the Confederate cruiser "Alabama" from England, his diplomacy prepared the way for a future adjustment satisfactory to the United States of the difficulties with these powers.

Ethical and sociological developments of this theory succeed its physical and psychological treatment, the consideration of the antinomy of freedom being especially important.

But when Conrad died, the electors chose his nephew Frederick, surnamed Barbarossa, who united the rival honors of Welf and Waiblingen, to succeed him; and it was soon obvious that the empire had a master powerful Fmder!ck of brain and firm of will.

According to Bede she took the veil in 614, when Oswio was king of Northumbria and Aidan bishop of Lindisfarne, and spent a year in East Anglia, where her sister Hereswith had married ZEthelhere, who was to succeed his brother Anna, the reigning king.

Six months after the assassination of Aurelian he was chosen by the senate to succeed him, and the choice was cordially ratified by the army.

In 1559 he accompanied the princess Margaret, now duchess of Savoy, to Nice, where, in the following year, tidings reached him that he had been chosen to succeed Francois Olivier (1487-1560) in the chancellorship of France.

Claudius intended that Agrippa's young son should succeed to the kingdom; but he was overruled by his advisers, and Judaea was taken over once more by Roman procurators.

He is elected by popular vote 3 for four years, and cannot succeed himself in office.

The Book of Husbandry begins with a description of the plough and other implements, after which about a third part of it is occupied with the several operations as they succeed one another throughout the year.

The two friends by their united force succeed in killing the bull, and then after performing certain votive and purification rites return to Erech, where they are hailed with joy In this adventure it is clearly Eabani who is artificially introduced in order to maintain the association with Gilgamesh.

He was amiable and kind-hearted, and greatly liked by his neighbours, but not a man of business habits, and he did not succeed in his farming enterprise.

He was designated by Gregory as one of four men most worthy to succeed him, and, after a vacancy of more than five months following the decease of Victor III., he was elected pope on the 12th of March 1088 by forty cardinals, bishops, and abbots assembled at Terracina, together with representatives of the Romans and of Countess Matilda.

Then it occurred to me that with the help of this new word I might succeed in straightening out the "mug-milk" difficulty.

Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

Farther in the woods than any of these, where the road approaches nearest to the pond, Wyman the potter squatted, and furnished his townsmen with earthenware, and left descendants to succeed him.

In the troubled waters of conflicting and intersecting intrigues that eddied about the Emperor's headquarters, it was possible to succeed in many ways unthinkable at other times.

His attempt at appearing blasé didn't succeed.

You really think I'll succeed?

He smoothed the way for Palmerston to succeed rim, and while the earl of Clarendon remained at the foreign office he aided him with advice and was consulted on matters of moment.

The control of the papacy by Charles V., moreover, made it impossible for Wolsey to succeed in his efforts to obtain from Clement VII.

At Chancellorsville he displayed great intrepidity and energy, and on the eve of the battle of Gettysburg was appointed to succeed Hooker.

In March 1861 he took his seat in the Senate, to which he had been elected to succeed Salmon P. Chase, when the latter became secretary of the treasury.

The president is chosen by a direct popular election and cannot be re-elected to succeed himself.

It is said that Matilda wished her second son Henry to succeed his father, as this prince, unlike his elder brother, was born the son of a king.

He did not succeed in gaining the support of Henry VIII.

We might expect persons who have experienced spontaneous visual hallucinations, of the kind vulgarly styled "ghosts" or "wraiths," to succeed in inducing pictures in a glass ball.

On the death of Godfrey he was summoned by a party in Jerusalem to succeed to his brother.