Accede vs. Succeed — What's the Difference?

Agree to a demand, request, or treaty

To come next in time or order

Assume an office or position

To replace another in office or position

To give one's consent, often at the insistence of another

To accomplish something desired or intended

To arrive at or come into an office or dignity

(Obsolete) To pass to a person by way of inheritance.

To become a party to an agreement or treaty.

To come after (something) in time or order; follow

To approach; to arrive, to come forward.

To come after and take the place of

To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.

(transitive) To follow something in sequence or time.

(intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.

(transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.

(intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).

(intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; often with to.

(intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

(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.

To approach; to come forward; - opposed to recede.

(intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.

To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.

(intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.

To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request.

(intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.

Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion;

To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).

Take on duties or office;

(transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.

To agree or express agreement;

(intransitive) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; often with to.

To fall heir to; to inherit.

To go down or near with to.

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.

To fall heir to; to inherit.

To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

To support; to prosper; to promote.

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.

To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.

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.

To go under cover.

Attain success or reach a desired goal;

Be the successor (of);