Usually means: Achieve desired goals or outcomes.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. succeed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. succeed: Merriam-Webster
  3. succeed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. succeed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. succeed: Collins English Dictionary
  6. succeed: Vocabulary.com
  7. Succeed, succeed: Wordnik
  8. succeed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. succeed: Wiktionary
  10. succeed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. succeed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. succeed: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. succeed: Dictionary.com
  14. succeed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. succeed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Succeed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Succeed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. succeed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. succeed: Rhymezone
  20. succeed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. succeed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. succeed: FreeDictionary.org
  23. succeed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. succeed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. succeed: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. succeed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. succeed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SUCCEED: Acronym Finder
  3. succeed: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. succeed: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. succeed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.
verb:  (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
verb:  (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
verb:  (intransitive) 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).
verb:  (intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
verb:  (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
verb:  (intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).
verb:  (transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
verb:  (intransitive) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To go down or near (with to).
verb:  Misconstruction of secede. [(intransitive) To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.]

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