succeed (succeeds, succeeding, succeeded)
1 Verb If you succeed, or if you succeed in doing something, you achieve the result that you wanted.
• [+ in] We have already succeeded in working out ground rules with the Department of Defense.
• [+ in] Some people will succeed in their efforts to stop smoking.
• the skills and qualities needed to succeed in small- and medium-sized businesses
2 VERB If something succeeds, it works in a satisfactory way or has the result that is intended.
• If marriage is to succeed in the 1990s, then people have to recognize the new
pressures it is facing.
• a move which would make any future talks even more unlikely to succeed
COLLOCATIONS: SYNONYMS: accomplish, manage succeed in/as something
a bid/negotiation/experiment succeeds
succeed admirably/brilliantly/academically