What does succeed mean?
Word: Succeed
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Succeed means to manage to do what you were trying to do. It can also mean to take over an important job or title after someone else.
Synonyms: achieve, prosper, win
Antonyms: lose
How do you spell succeed?
Syllables: suc - ceed
Tricky part: It has two pairs of double letters: cc and ee. The first c sounds like k and the second like s.
Watch out for: suceed, succede, sucseed
Memory tip: Double up to succeed: two c's and two e's, the way you double your effort to get there.
Idioms and Phrases
- if at first you don't succeed, try, try again: Keep trying even when your first attempts go wrong. Example: "Adam missed the basket ten times, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
Succeed in a sentence
Example 1: With steady practice, you will succeed in learning the drums.
Example 2: The scientists did not succeed until their fifth attempt.
Example 3: Who will succeed Mrs Rao as head of the science club?
Fun Fact
Only three common English words end in ceed: succeed, proceed and exceed. Nearly all the others with that sound end in cede, like precede and concede.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) succeed
b) recieve
c) excelent
d) tommorow
Show answer
a) succeed. Receive puts e before i after c, excellent doubles its l and tomorrow has one m; succeed is right as it stands.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
succeed
a) follow
b) fail
c) struggle
d) practise
Show answer
b) fail. To fail is not to manage what you tried; you may struggle and practise on the way to success, and follow is close to the other meaning of succeed.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
cdueces
a) excused
b) secured
c) succeed
d) reduces
Show answer
c) succeed. Secured and reduces both need an r and excused an x; these seven letters build succeed.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Riya succeeded in her swimming test. What happened?
a) she passed it
b) she missed it
c) she put it off
d) she failed it
Show answer
a) she passed it
2. When the old king retired, his daughter succeeded him. This means she ____.
a) became the next ruler
b) left the palace for good
c) wrote a book about him
d) beat him in a race
Show answer
a) became the next ruler
