succeed

1. (v) (intransitive) To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort. 2. (v) (intransitive) To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general. 3. (v) (intransitive) To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to). 4. (v) (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). 5. (v) (transitive) To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title. 6. (v) (intransitive) To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant. 7. (v) (transitive) To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to. 8. (v) (transitive) To follow something in sequence or time. 9. (v) (intransitive) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to). 10. (v) (transitive, obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit. 11. (v) (intransitive, dated) To turn out, fare, do (well or ill). 12. (v) (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To go down or near (with to). 13. (v) Misconstruction of secede. [(intransitive) To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.]