succeeds

verbattain good outcome
verbcome after; take the place of

Antonyms for succeeds

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "come next after, take the place of another," from Old French succeder (14c.), from Latin succedere "come after, go near to," from sub "next to, after" (see sub-) + cedere "go, move" (see cede). Meaning "to continue, endure" is from early 15c. The sense of "turn out well, have a favorable result" is first recorded late 15c., with ellipsis of adverb (succeed well).

Example Sentences forsucceeds

Piqui Chaqui wants to get news, but to tell nothing, and in this he succeeds.

After the death of his father, he succeeds to the throne of the Scyldings, 53.

What matters it to the who succeeds me,—the one or the other?

Trial of speed is made, and he succeeds in two hundred yards.

Surely, M. le Baron, he will have justified it if he succeeds.

He repeats the process again and again, and finally he succeeds.

There's no originality in the thought, but it succeeds as well as if there were!

I shall be delighted with this arrangement, provided it succeeds.

If he succeeds, he will, of course, exemplify the wisdom of having two strings to his bow.

He tries, therefore, to look as if he agreed with her, and succeeds very fairly.