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SUCCEEDING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coming after or following
Classified under:
Similar:
back-to-back; consecutive (one after the other)
ensuing (following immediately and as a result of what went before)
following; undermentioned (about to be mentioned or specified)
following; next (immediately following in time or order)
next ((of a day of the week) nearest (or nearest but one) after the present moment)
in line (being next in a line of succession)
postmortem (after death or after an event)
Also:
subsequent (following in time or order)
Attribute:
timing (the time when something happens)
temporal relation (a relation involving time)
Antonym:
preceding (existing or coming before)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
Example:
our next president
Synonyms:
future; next; succeeding
Classified under:
Similar:
incoming (arriving at a place or position)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb succeed
Context examples:
Among the most vivid memories of my life are those of the events on the Ghost which occurred during the forty hours succeeding the discovery of my love for Maud Brewster.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Astonishment and doubt first seized them; and a shortly succeeding ray of common sense added some bitter emotions of shame.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
His shoes were of red leather, daintily pointed at the toes, but not yet prolonged to the extravagant lengths which the succeeding reign was to bring into fashion.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But he was pleased to conceal one particular, which related personally to myself, whereof I soon felt the unhappy effect, as the reader will know in its proper place, and whence I date all the succeeding misfortunes of my life.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On the morrow they were walking about together with true enjoyment, and every succeeding morrow renewed a tete-a-tete which Sir Thomas could not but observe with complacency, even before Edmund had pointed it out to him.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Tell me, then, have I no chance of ever succeeding?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But I have no right, and I could have no chance of succeeding.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Through letters, whatever of good or bad was to be told would be communicated, and every succeeding day was expected to bring some news of importance.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The conclusions drawn from this scrutiny he partially expressed in his succeeding observations.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"The coolness of you two rascals is amazing," began Mr. Pickwick, trying to get up an awful frown and only succeeding in producing an amiable smile.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
