Social life

Synonyms for succeed

The synonym for succeed recorded in this bank is follow, in the sense "be the successor (of)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The synonym for succeed

followverb, in the sense "be the successor (of)"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day succeed is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsSocial life

be the successor (of)

He will succeed his father as chairman next year.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

Same sentence, swapped: He will follow his father as chairman next year.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where succeed stands in the sentence above.

win
precede
represent

Where succeed turns up in the game

succeed is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where succeed is the trap

connectverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is join, in the sense "be or become joined or united or linked", and succeed is on the board beside it.
connectverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is link, in the sense "make a logical or causal connection", and succeed is on the board beside it.
followverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trace, in the sense "follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something", so succeed is there to be ruled out.

Play succeed

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so succeed reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Closest first: other social life words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

attendverbseetake charge of or deal withFoothillsHas a reason line banternounteasingplayful, teasing conversation exchanged for amusement.FoothillsHas a reason line bondverb, nountiecreate social or emotional tiesFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line camaraderienounfriendshipa spirit of mutual trust and friendship among people who spend time togetherFoothillsHas a reason line commandverb, nouncontrolexercise authoritative control or power overFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line commiserateverbcondoleto express sympathy or share sorrow with someone over their loss or misfortuneSummitHas a reason line commitverbpracticeengage in or performFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line cascadeverbpourto pour downward rapidly in a large flowFoothillsHas a reason line

Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

succeed is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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