{
    "term": "succeed",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "succeed",
            "heSheIt": "succeeds"
        },
        "pastSimple": "succeeded",
        "pastParticiple": "succeeded",
        "ingForm": "succeeding"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to achieve something that you have been trying to do or get; to have the result or effect that was intended",
            "sensetop": "succeed in doing something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Our plan succeeded."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Whether we **succeed or fail** depends on ingenuity and luck."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He succeeded in getting a place at art school.",
                    "contextForm": "succeed in doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I tried to discuss it with her but **only succeeded** in making her angry *(= I failed and did the opposite of what I intended)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No company can hope to succeed at everything."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The appeal is unlikely to succeed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They very nearly succeeded in blowing up the building."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This option has rarely succeeded in recent years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We feel that we have largely succeeded in our aims."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book succeeds beautifully in presenting the problem before us."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We succeeded in repairing the engine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "hints on how to succeed with interior design"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to succeed against serious opposition"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["admirably", "beautifully", "brilliantly"],
                "verb + succeed": [
                    "be likely to",
                    "be unlikely to",
                    "be determined to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["against", "at", "in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be successful in your job, earning money, power, respect, etc.",
            "sensetop": "succeed in somethingsucceed as something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You will have to work hard if you are to succeed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She doesn't have the ruthlessness required to succeed in business.",
                    "contextForm": "succeed in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had hoped to succeed as a violinist.",
                    "contextForm": "succeed as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has succeeded in a difficult career."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're much more likely to succeed in a business with a partner than without one."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The engineering career structure worked against women succeeding."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are looking for individuals with a determination to succeed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She can teach you how to succeed at tennis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are being given the confidence and motivation to succeed academically."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["admirably", "beautifully", "brilliantly"],
                "verb + succeed": [
                    "be likely to",
                    "be unlikely to",
                    "be determined to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["against", "at", "in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to come next after somebody/something and take their/its place or position",
            "sensetop": "succeed somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Who succeeded Kennedy as President?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their early success was succeeded by a period of miserable failure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Strands of DNA are reproduced through **succeeding generations**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was expected to succeed Jack Smith as CEO when he retired."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was widely tipped to succeed Mrs May as leader of the party."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "follow",
            "collocations": {
                "verb + succeed": [
                    "appoint somebody to",
                    "elect somebody to",
                    "be tipped to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["as", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to gain the right to a title, property, etc. when somebody dies",
            "sensetop": "succeed (to something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She succeeded to the throne *(= became queen)* in 1558."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had no right to succeed to the tenancy when his father died."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + succeed": [
                    "appoint somebody to",
                    "elect somebody to",
                    "be tipped to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["as", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "when you are successful in one area of your life, it often leads to success in other areas",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːd/",
                "audio": "su/succeed/succeed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdz/",
                "audio": "su/succeed/succeeds__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdɪd/",
                "audio": "su/succeed/succeeded__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "su/succeed/succeeding__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːd/",
                "audio": "su/succeed/succeed__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdz/",
                "audio": "su/succeed/succeeds__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdɪd/",
                "audio": "su/succeed/succeeded__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səkˈsiːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "su/succeed/succeeding__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French succeder or Latin succedere ‘come close after’, from sub- ‘close to’ + cedere ‘go’."
}