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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
after, appendant, assured of success, attendant, cadet, coming, consecutive, consequent, crowned with success, ensuing, following, fortunate, junior, later, lineal, made, next, on the up-and-up, on top, out in front, posterior, postpositional, postpositive, prosperous, proximate, puisne, sequacious, sequent, sequential, serial, subsequent, successful, successional, successive, suffixed, surefire, trailing, triumphant, younger
Dictionary Results for succeeding:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
succeeding
    adj 1: coming after or following [ant: preceding(a)]
    2: (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next
       president" [syn: future(a), next, succeeding(a)]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Succeed \Suc*ceed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Succeeded; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Succeeding.] [L. succedere, successum; sub under +
   cedere to go, to go along, approach, follow, succeed: cf. F.
   succ['e]der. See Cede, and cf. Success.]
   1. To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the
      place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on
      the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
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            As he saw him nigh succeed.           --Spenser.
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   2. To fall heir to; to inherit. [Obs. & R.] --Shak.
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   3. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to
      follow; to pursue.
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            Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse. --Sir
                                                  T. Browne.
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   4. To support; to prosper; to promote. [R.]
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            Succeed my wish and second my design. --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Succeeding \Suc*ceed"ing\, n.
   The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which
   succeeds, or follows after; consequence. --Shak.
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