Verb: succeed suk'seed
- Attain success or reach a desired goal
"The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show";
- win, come through, bring home the bacon [informal], deliver the goods, come up trumps [Brit, informal], turn up trumps [Brit, informal]
- Be the successor (of)
"Will Charles succeed to the throne?";
- come after, follow
Derived forms: succeeded, succeeds, succeeding
Encyclopedia: Succeed