Succeed vs Triumphed - What's the difference?
succeed | triumphed |
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.
(triumph)
A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.
(obsolete) Any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.
* Shakespeare
A state of joy or exultation at success.
* Milton
* Dryden
(obsolete) A trump card.
A card game, also called trump.
(historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander.
A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality.
To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
* Bible, Psalms xciv. 3
* Shakespeare
To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties.
To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
* Macaulay
To be prosperous; to flourish.
* Trumbull
To play a trump in a card game.
As verbs the difference between succeed and triumphed
is that succeed is to follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of while triumphed is (triumph).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.
Antonyms
* (follow in order) precede * fail, fall on one's faceDerived terms
* nothing succeeds like success * succedent * succeedinglytriumphed
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Verb
(head)triumph
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) triumphe , from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the triumph of knowledge
- Our daughter, / In honour of whose birth these triumphs are, / Sits here, like beauty's child.
- Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven.
- Hercules from Spain / Arrived in triumph , from Geryon slain.
- Scorsese's latest film is a triumph .
- This wedding cake is a triumph .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- How long shall the wicked triumph ?
- Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you / That triumph thus upon my misery!
- On this occasion, however, genius triumphed.
- where commerce triumphed on the favouring gales
- (Ben Jonson)