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{
"term": "succeed",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "succeed",
"heSheIt": "succeeds"
},
"pastSimple": "succeeded",
"pastParticiple": "succeeded",
"ingForm": "succeeding"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to achieve something that you have been trying to do or get; to have the result or effect that was intended",
"sensetop": "succeed in doing something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Our plan succeeded."
},
{
"text": "Whether we **succeed or fail** depends on ingenuity and luck."
},
{
"text": "He succeeded in getting a place at art school.",
"contextForm": "succeed in doing something"
},
{
"text": "I tried to discuss it with her but **only succeeded** in making her angry *(= I failed and did the opposite of what I intended)*."
},
{
"text": "No company can hope to succeed at everything."
},
{
"text": "The appeal is unlikely to succeed."
},
{
"text": "They very nearly succeeded in blowing up the building."
},
{
"text": "This option has rarely succeeded in recent years."
},
{
"text": "We feel that we have largely succeeded in our aims."
},
{
"text": "The book succeeds beautifully in presenting the problem before us."
},
{
"text": "We succeeded in repairing the engine."
},
{
"text": "hints on how to succeed with interior design"
},
{
"text": "to succeed against serious opposition"
}
],
"topics": ["Success"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["admirably", "beautifully", "brilliantly"],
"verb + succeed": [
"be likely to",
"be unlikely to",
"be determined to"
],
"preposition": ["against", "at", "in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to be successful in your job, earning money, power, respect, etc.",
"sensetop": "succeed in somethingsucceed as something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "You will have to work hard if you are to succeed."
},
{
"text": "She doesn't have the ruthlessness required to succeed in business.",
"contextForm": "succeed in something"
},
{
"text": "He had hoped to succeed as a violinist.",
"contextForm": "succeed as something"
},
{
"text": "She has succeeded in a difficult career."
},
{
"text": "You're much more likely to succeed in a business with a partner than without one."
},
{
"text": "The engineering career structure worked against women succeeding."
},
{
"text": "We are looking for individuals with a determination to succeed."
},
{
"text": "She can teach you how to succeed at tennis."
},
{
"text": "They are being given the confidence and motivation to succeed academically."
}
],
"topics": ["Success"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["admirably", "beautifully", "brilliantly"],
"verb + succeed": [
"be likely to",
"be unlikely to",
"be determined to"
],
"preposition": ["against", "at", "in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to come next after somebody/something and take their/its place or position",
"sensetop": "succeed somebody/something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Who succeeded Kennedy as President?"
},
{
"text": "Their early success was succeeded by a period of miserable failure."
},
{
"text": "Strands of DNA are reproduced through **succeeding generations**."
},
{
"text": "He was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra."
},
{
"text": "He was expected to succeed Jack Smith as CEO when he retired."
},
{
"text": "He was widely tipped to succeed Mrs May as leader of the party."
}
],
"synonyms": "follow",
"collocations": {
"verb + succeed": [
"appoint somebody to",
"elect somebody to",
"be tipped to"
],
"preposition": ["as", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to gain the right to a title, property, etc. when somebody dies",
"sensetop": "succeed (to something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She succeeded to the throne *(= became queen)* in 1558."
},
{
"text": "He had no right to succeed to the tenancy when his father died."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verb + succeed": [
"appoint somebody to",
"elect somebody to",
"be tipped to"
],
"preposition": ["as", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "when you are successful in one area of your life, it often leads to success in other areas",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Success"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːd/",
"audio": "su/succeed/succeed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdz/",
"audio": "su/succeed/succeeds__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdɪd/",
"audio": "su/succeed/succeeded__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/succeed/succeeding__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːd/",
"audio": "su/succeed/succeed__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdz/",
"audio": "su/succeed/succeeds__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdɪd/",
"audio": "su/succeed/succeeded__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/succeed/succeeding__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French succeder or Latin succedere ‘come close after’, from sub- ‘close to’ + cedere ‘go’."
}