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What is the verb for success?

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succeed
  1. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
  2. To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
  3. (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
  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.
    1. To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
  7. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
  8. To go under cover.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “He would finally succeed in his quest to become a yoga teacher.”
      “Effective management is a critical factor in determining if a project will succeed.”
      “Only after this crisis has been overcome can Valentine succeed to the title of Pontifex.”
succeeding
succede
  1. Dated form of succeed.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Russell Crowe incarnates a glorious roman general chosen by the dying emperor to succede him.”
succedes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of succede
succeeds
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of succeed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Despite or because of this, the film succeeds as an attempt at a purely cinematic art.”
      “It succeeds in adding depth and texture to the album, but sometimes overshoots the mark.”
      “Parke, previously president and chief operating officer, succeeds company founder Allen Mebane, who will remain as chairman.”
succeedest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of succeed
succeded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of succede
  2. Examples:
    1. “Following the debacle, a more moderate group of neoliberals succeded in stabilising the now streamlined macroeconomy.”
      “What's more, other artists have a chance of being able to infiltrate this gap where few Frenchmen have succeded up to now.”
      “In his documentary about Yamamoto, Wim Wenders had succeded to translate our feelings and intentions about fashion and more, about clothes.”
succeeded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of succeed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To the abraxas succeeded the talismans, which were of the highest estimation in the East.”
      “Princess Dolgoruki had made a similar request, and by accentuating his danger they both only succeeded in challenging his courage.”
      “Robert Ramsey succeeded to the abbacy in 1346, but of him nothing particular is recorded.”
succeding
  1. present participle of succede
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