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Succeed

Verb

Definitionen

1.VerbTo follow something in sequence or time.
"Autumn succeeds summer."
2.VerbTo 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."
3.VerbTo come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; .
4.VerbTo 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; .
"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.; Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died."
5.VerbTo ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
"Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died."
6.VerbTo 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.; She succeeded in her efforts to repair the tank."
7.VerbTo prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
"voted most likely to succeed"
8.VerbTo turn out, fare, do (well or ill).
9.VerbTo support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
10.VerbTo descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; .
11.VerbTo fall heir to; to inherit.
12.VerbTo go down or near .
13.VerbMisconstruction of secede.
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