Accompany vs Succeed - What's the difference?
accompany | succeed | Related terms |
To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
* 1804 :
* 1581 , (Philip Sidney), An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy , Book I:
* 1979 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England :
To supplement with; add to.
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, title= (senseid)(music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
(music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
(obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
* (rfdate) Holland:
(obsolete) To cohabit (with).
(obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
(obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* 1919 ,
To support; to prosper; to promote.
* Dryden
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.
# To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
To go under cover.
As verbs the difference between accompany and succeed
is that accompany is to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with while succeed is to follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.accompany
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Verb
(en-verb)- The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompany together.
Usage notes
(to go with) Persons are said to be accompanied by', and inanimate objects, state or condition is said to be accompanied ' with .Synonyms
* (go with) attend, escort, go with :* We accompany those with whom we go as companions. The word imports an equality of station. :* We attend those whom we wait upon or follow. The word conveys an idea of subordination . :* We escort those whom we attend with a view to guard and protect . :*: A gentleman accompanies' a friend to some public place; he '''attends''' or ' escorts a lady.succeed
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Alternative forms
* succede (dated)Verb
(en verb)- The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.
- Autumn succeeds summer.
- So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.
- Destructive effects succeeded the curse.
- Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.
- Succeed my wish and second my design.
