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proceeded

[v. pruh-seed; n. proh-seed]

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verb (used without object)

to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.

to carry on or continue any action or process.

to go on to do something.

to continue one's discourse.

Law.

to begin and carry on a legal action.

to take legal action (usually followed by against).

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to be carried on, as an action or process.

to go or come forth; issue (often followed by from).

to arise, originate, or result (usually followed by from).

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noun

proceeds,

something that results or accrues.

the total amount derived from a sale or other transaction: The proceeds from the deal were divided equally among us.

the profits or returns from a sale, investment, etc.

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Proceeded is always a great word to know.

So is bezoar. Does it mean:

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English procede < Latin prōcēdere. See pro-¹, cede

Related forms

pro·ceed·er, noun

re·pro·ceed, verb (used without object)

Can be confused: precede, proceed.

Synonyms
1. progress, continue, pass on. See advance. 7. emanate. 8. spring, ensue.

Antonyms
1. recede.

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Example Sentences

We proceeded to get equipment out of the back of our car when the first building collapsed.

It was a venting session with other bloggers who then proceeded to sympathize with her.

And they proceeded to live up to their critics' darkest fears.

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We proceeded to get equipment out of the back of our car when the first building collapsed.

It was a venting session with other bloggers who then proceeded to sympathize with her.

And they proceeded to live up to their critics' darkest fears.

Reaching it, the male proceeded to one side, the female to the other.

After they had constructed their audio clips the researchers proceeded to the next phase of the experiment:.

He proceeded to do so at considerable personal risk.

Last fall his roommate nailed up a dartboard and proceeded to trounce him game.

After stating the facts relative to the subject, he proceeded to say.

She told stories about professors who wrote textbooks, and proceeded to read the relevant pages to auditoriums full of students.

He then proceeded to calculate each population's average weight, as well as its obesity rate, for every decade of available data.

Ecological succession has proceeded at different speeds in different areas.

But new research suggests that these events may have proceeded at rather a different pace.

He put a drop of buffer solution on the gut to keep it moist and then proceeded to attack the bulging hindgut.

For more than a year, planning proceeded largely out of public view.

The shirts caught his eye and he proceeded to thumb the material, declaring them well-made.

He realized the importance of this observation and proceeded to publish and defend.

In this case, development proceeded apace, resulting in a blastocyst.

Then the dominant male proceeded to lead the charge on the parked vehicles as you're observing now.

They proceeded to show how they did it and, lo and behold, they couldn't pick it up.

He separated the pages, stuffed them in the box and proceeded to the taping process.

He then proceeded to take a syringe and pretend to stab his friend with it.

So he proceeded to get in an ambulance and go to the hospital at that point.

Plenty of libel cases have proceeded against the students that write late night diatribes in campus papers.

She then proceeded to take bets on the exact time the plane would actually land.

In the far distance a herd of elephants proceeded at a stately pace toward the water.

It tried to call me, got my voice mail and proceeded to blacklist my credit card.

She made the chicken soup and then proceeded to put the uncooked matzo balls in the soup.

When they inactivated p16 and other senescence-linked genes in embryonic mice, aging proceeded normally.

Indeed they have proceeded so far, that's a mere announcement of them.

Then, the students proceeded to evaluate the content.

The intimidation of opposition campaigners proceeded apace.

In older red wines the tannin reactions have proceeded long enough to reduce astringency.

Many a night one could observe a procession of torches carried by mourners as they proceeded up the mountain to bury their dead.

The leopards typically proceeded to eat the hands and feet of the baboons by eating one joint at a time.

He had not proceeded a quarter of a mile in the woods when he was stricken.

The tragedy of bullying and other similar events is the information that proceeded it--in my work in higher.

They got out of their buses and proceeded on foot, unarmed.

Unfortunately, you casually dismissed it and proceeded to lecture me about wikipedia.

They added debugging abilities by watching the levels of some intermediate output molecules as the reaction proceeded.

Seitz then proceeded to explain exactly what it is that dry cleaners.

Her committee then proceeded to flunk her on her proposal.

Europe has proceeded with austerity because markets posed a real.

We have mistakenly proceeded in this direction, poor energetic yield and efficiency.

As is usually the case, the revolution has not proceeded as forecast.

Callanan had a young man prepare notes as the feast proceeded.

He then proceeded to make clear to all athletes that he expected them to excel in their studies as well as on the field.

What's particularly interesting to watch is how recovery has proceeded in recent months.

In a perfect world, you'd want to be able to measure each of those species simultaneously over time as the reaction proceeded.

Development has since proceeded along two tracks, with and without projectiles.

During the day the police force who were detailed for the voyage proceeded on board with their baggage.

They then proceeded to send me two hard copies of the actual textbook.

The banks proceeded to double and triple their borrowing.

It emerged from foliage on the side of an impossibly steep cliff and proceeded to clamber up the slope without much difficulty.

The tour began outside of the house, then proceeded inside through the front door.

Loomis then proceeded to open the case for the defence.

She then proceeded to stand behind it and then hop.

Yet he and his men had proceeded to chase away the district police and a few local resisters, killing eight.

The pain has recently proceeded down my back to the lower back and sciatic pain.

Other contestants, using the same microphone, then proceeded to beat them with higher decibel scores.

Many students proceeded to the capstone course with abysmal writing skills.

He then proceeded to pile up a shockingly high stack of evidence to support his theory.

W1 was in another part of the house, and she quickly proceeded to the bedroom.

We then proceeded to conduct a delicious affair over a number of months.

Or rather, that the decline in home values then proceeded to almost take down the entire banking system.

Then, they proceeded to tell us the entire plot in loving detail.

Then she proceeded to write her essay in yellow highlighter marker.

For some time it proceeded in the ordinary ways of reasoning with an extensive discussion of certain empirical data.

Their strategies were complicated improvisations that proceeded from observing the world around them.

He then proceeded to turn in a completely lifted paper from the internet.

The tourist proceeded to pick seeds out of their dragon fruit with a toothpick.

But the alandode deal drove the message deep into the economic brain stem, where it proceeded to incite revolution.

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Word Origin & History

proceed

1382, from O.Fr. proceder (13c.), from L. procedere "go forward, advance," from pro- "forward" + cedere "to go" (see cede) Proceeds (n.) "results, profits" is first attested 1665, on the notion of "that which proceeds from something." Proceedings "records of the doings of a society" is from 1830.

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