Definition of "succeeded" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of succeed. (verb)

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• "He succeeded in arresting two of them, but the third made fight; and upon _being shot in the shoulder_, fled to a sluice, where the _dogs succeeded_ in drowning him before assistance could arrive. ""
• "In Germany the term succeeded because it found a vacuum: terms such as the first and second"
• ""I always thought that the next heir to a title succeeded to it, as soon as his father died.""