These are the meanings of the letters ECCSUED when you unscramble them.
- Succeed (v. i.)
Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
- Succeed (v. i.)
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.
- Succeed (v. i.)
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
- Succeed (v. i.)
To go under cover.
- Succeed (v. i.)
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
- Succeed (v. t.)
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
- Succeed (v. t.)
To fall heir to; to inherit.
- Succeed (v. t.)
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.
- Succeed (v. t.)
To support; to prosper; to promote.