succeed

verb13

1. •
   to get the result that was planned or hoped for after trying

   • 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.
   • She succeeded in her efforts to repair the tank.
2. •
   To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
3. •
   To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.

   • The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.
   • After a contentious election, Jones succeeded Smith as president of the republic.
4. •
   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).

   • Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne.
   • So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, the crown (or: property) falls to me.
5. •
   To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.

   • Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died.
6. •
   To follow something in sequence or time.

   • Autumn succeeds summer.
7. •
   To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).

   • Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin. — 1919
8. •
   (old-fashioned) To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).

   • An excellent hospital nurse may succeed poorly in private work, for the executive ability that means so much in the hospital counts for little in caring for a single patient. — 1911
9. •
   Misconstruction of secede.
10. •
    To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
11. •
    To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.

    • Succeed my wish and second my design. — 1697
12. •
    (no longer used, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.

    • Else let my brother die, / If not a feodary, but only he / Owe and succeed thy weakness. — 1603
13. •
    (no longer used, rare) To go down or near (with to).

    • Who, ever as he saw him nigh succeed, / Gan cry aloud with horrible affright, […] — 1679