Preceded vs Succeed - What's the difference?
preceded | succeed |
(precede)
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To go before, go in front of.
* Milton
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
* Kent
To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
(en-noun) Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
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 preceded and succeed
is that preceded is past tense of precede while succeed is to follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.preceded
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* (archaic)Verb
(head)precede
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* (archaic)Verb
(preced)- Harm precedes not sin.
- It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration.
Usage notes
* Not to be confused with proceed.Noun
Antonyms
* (go before) succeedAnagrams
* ----succeed
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* 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.