The difference between Precede and Succeed
When used as verbs, precede means to go before, go in front of, whereas succeed means to follow in order.
Precede is also noun with the meaning: brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay).
check bellow for the other definitions of Precede and Succeed
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Precede as a verb (transitive):
To go before, go in front of.
Examples:
"Cultural genocide precedes physical genocide."
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Precede as a verb (transitive):
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
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Precede as a verb (transitive):
To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
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Precede as a noun:
Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
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Succeed as a verb:
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
Examples:
"The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne."
"Autumn succeeds summer."
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Succeed as a verb:
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
Examples:
"The persecution of any righteous practice has never succeeded in the face of history; in fact, it can expedite the collapse of the persecutory regime."
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Succeed as a verb (obsolete, rare):
To fall heir to; to inherit.
Examples:
"So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king."
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Succeed as a verb:
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
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Succeed as a verb:
To support; to prosper; to promote.
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Succeed as a verb:
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.
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Succeed as a verb:
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
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Succeed as a verb:
To go under cover.