Definition of succeed

"succeed" in the verb sense

1. succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods

attain success or reach a desired goal

"The enterprise succeeded"

"We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"

"she struggled to overcome her handicap and won"

2. succeed, come after, follow

be the successor (of

"Carter followed Ford"

"Will Charles succeed to the throne?"

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Quotations for succeed

Sadness and gladness succeed each other. [ Proverb ]

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. [ Guicciardini ]

To succeed well, one must have his lucky day. [ Proverb ]

Lightning and thunder (heaven's artillery)
As harbingers before th' Almighty fly:
Those but proclaim His style, and disappear;
The stiller sounds succeed, and God is there. [ John Dryden ]

Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed. [ Cowper ]

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

Those who feign love succeed better than those who truly love.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. [ Sterne ]

As night succeeds the day, so do joy and grief succeed each other. [ Sophocles ]

Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. [ Tacitus ]

Though duller thoughts succeed, the bliss even of a moment still is bliss. [ Joanna Baillie ]

To succeed in the world, we must be foolish in appearance, but really wise. [ Montesquieu ]

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit. [ Lord Eldon ]

It is a pity that we so often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. [ Empress Irene ]

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed. [ Roscommon ]

If we succeed in acquiring the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. [ Sir John Lubbock ]

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. [ Bovee ]

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A man must be a fool, who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her. [ Balzac ]

The saddest failures in life are those that come from the not putting forth of power and will to succeed. [ Whipple ]

A man of sense and gravity is less apt to succeed with a fine woman than the gay, the giddy, the flattering coxcomb. [ Henry Home ]

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life. [ Renan ]

If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of others. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. [ Dryden ]

Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it. [ Tacitus ]

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism; as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. [ Colton ]

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. [ Cato ]

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual. [ Fontenelle ]

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. [ Beaconsfield ]

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed. [ Fichte ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]

succeed in Scrabble®

The word succeed is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters succeed:

SUCCEED
(98 = 48 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

succeed

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word succeed

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SUCCEED
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SUCCEED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In succeed

SUCCEED
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succeed in Words With Friends™

The word succeed is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters succeed:

SUCCEED
(116 = 81 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

succeed

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word succeed

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In succeed

SUCCEED
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SUCCEED
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Words within the letters of succeed

2 letter words in succeed (1 word)

3 letter words in succeed (8 words)

4 letter words in succeed (11 words)

5 letter words in succeed (4 words)

6 letter words in succeed (3 words)

7 letter words in succeed (1 word)

succeed + 1 blank (1 word)

succeed + 2 blanks (3 words)

Words containing the sequence succeed

Words that start with succeed (6 words)

Words with succeed in them (1 word)

Words that end with succeed (1 word)

Word Growth involving succeed

Shorter words in succeed

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Longer words containing succeed

succeeded

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succeeding

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