Done vs Succeed - What's the difference?
done | succeed |
(of food) Ready, fully cooked.
In a state of having completed or finished an activity.
Being exhausted or fully spent.
Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
(African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect.
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 done and succeed
is that done is while succeed is to follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.done
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Adjective
(en adjective)- As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
- He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done ."
- They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
- When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
- He is done , after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
- I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done !
- What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
Derived terms
* be done for * be done with it * done deal * get done for * overdone * well doneVerb
(head)- I have ''done'' my work.
- I done did my best to raise y'all.
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* * English irregular past participles ----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.