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succedere — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • happen verb To take place; to occur.
  • succeed verb To achieve a desired goal or outcome.

Senses

succedere is used for these senses in English:

  • come after To follow or succeed; to be the successor of.
  • happen (transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
  • succeed (intransitive) 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).

happen — full definition

  1. verb To take place; to occur.
  2. verb To do something by chance, or to encounter something unexpectedly.

succeed — full definition

  1. verb To achieve a desired goal or outcome.
  2. verb To take over a position, office, or title after someone else.

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