to succeed
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2.0
- verb
- /səkˈsiːd/
:
tener éxito
- She studied diligently, believing that she would succeed in passing the exam.
- help them succeed
- succeed in school
- students succeed
They want you to succeed because when you succeed, they succeed.
- They want you to succeed because when you succeed, they succeed.
- So if they're not succeeding, you're also not succeeding.
- If you need motivation to succeed, you're not going to succeed.
- You can still succeed in this country.
- I know that you can grow and succeed by helping other people.
- The universe wants you to succeed, but not in that project.
- Try, fail, try, fail and when you succeed, keep doing the part that succeeds.
- The second Jerome Powell says we have succeeded at conquering inflation.
- How can a manager succeed in this task?
- I'm looking to just succeed in what I'm doing.
- Whether they would be able to succeed or not remains to be seen.
Examples
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Work, try hard, believe you can succeed, get up and try again.
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As an outcome of participation, students' motivation to succeed in other subject areas increased, especially in creative writing.
Academic text (2013) -
If you believe that you can succeed in this town, I can.
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You can still succeed in this country.
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I know that you can grow and succeed by helping other people.
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When we succeed, we do it as a nation.
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To succeed, there must be trust between us.
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I'll learn from that so that I can succeed in the future.
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They want you to succeed because when you succeed, they succeed.
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Work has given her a place to succeed while she acquires English and interacts with Americans.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To beat others in a contest or game
∞
1.1
Get to a place, level, or goal after effort
∞
2.3
To reach a goal by effort or skill
942
2.6
To do something successfully after much effort
520
1.2
Be successful or have good results in something
218
3.4
To get through a hard time and be okay
207
3.4
To become very successful in a job or career
190
2.1
To do something correctly so it works as intended
110
3.9
To reach a level, place, or goal after hard work
94
2.4
To finish a task well and quickly
60
3.4
To win or succeed and feel great joy
10
3.5
To reach the thing you aim at or the goal you planned
4
3.9
To do what was promised and get the expected result
3
3.7
Achieve the needed goal at work or in projects
3
3.4
Succeed in reaching a goal after some time and effort
Antonyms
How Successful
Surface Forms
Morphology
succeed = success (semi-transparent) = suc + ceed
The verb is recognizably related to the noun 'success' (so learners who know 'success' may infer a related verb), but its form comes from non-productive Latin elements (suc-/ceed-) so the morphological formation is not fully transparent to average learners.
Etymology
Succeed comes from the parts sub- 'under' and cedere 'to go', and it originally meant 'to come after' or 'follow'. A simple way to remember the meaning 'to achieve' is to think of success as what 'comes after' your hard work, so to succeed is to reach the result you wanted.