succeed

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   attain success or reach a desired goal

   The enterprise succeeded

2. 2
   verb

   To follow something in sequence or time.

   Autumn succeeds summer.

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   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).

   Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne.

6. 6
   verb

   To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.

   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.

7. 7
   verb

   To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.

   voted most likely to succeed

8. 8
   verb

   To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).

   In some parts of Germany it is commonly believed that whatever is undertaken when the moon is on the increase succeeds well [...] whereas business undertaken in the wane of the moon is doomed to failure.

Etymology

From Old French succeder, from Latin succedere (“to go under, go from under, come under, approach, follow, take the place of, receive by succession, prosper, be successful”).