If you succeed another person, you are the next person to have their job or position. David Rowland is almost certain to succeed him as chairman on January 1 The present ruler, Prince Rainier III, succeeded to the throne on 9 May 1949
If you succeed in doing something, you manage to do it. We have already succeeded in working out ground rules with the Department of Defense Some people will succeed in their efforts to stop smoking fail
attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won
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To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer
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