succeeded

Meaning of succeeded

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.

Information about succeeded

  • It is a verb.
  • Languages ​​in which succeeded is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of succeeded

suc-ceeded

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • succeeded is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

succeeded synonyms

Meaning :

flourish

succeeded antonyms

Meaning :

precede, fail

Words that rhyme with succeeded

Obeded, acceded, anteceded, ceded, conceded, inceded, interceded, preceded, preconceded, preinterceded, reacceded, receded, retroceded, seceded, superceded, unceded, unconceded, unpreceded, unseceded, arreeded, creeded, crossbreeded, deeded, exceeded, feeded, heeded, needed, outspeeded, outweeded, overseeded, proceeded, reeded, reseeded, screeded, seeded, speeded, steeded, tickseeded, tweeded, undeeded, underseeded, unexceeded, unheeded, unneeded, unseeded, unsucceeded, unweeded, weeded, bobsleded, sleded

Are you looking more rhymes for succeeded? Try our rhymes search engine.