succeed🔊

To follow something in sequence or time.

To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.

To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; {{q|often with ''to''}}.

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; {{q|often with ''to''}}.

To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.

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

To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.

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

To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.

To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; {{q|often with ''to''}}.

(rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.

(rare) To go down or near {{q|with ''to''}}.

(secede).