succeeding
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
- • Standard complexity
verb
1. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
"Autumn succeeds summer."
2. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
"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."
3. To fall heir to; to inherit.
"So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king."
4. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
5. To support; to prosper; to promote.
6. 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.
7. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
8. To go under cover.
Synonyms
noun
1. Success
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