Verb

(head)

(succeed)

Verb

(en verb)

To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.

The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.

Autumn succeeds summer.

To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.

(obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.

So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.

To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.

* Sir Thomas Browne

Destructive effects succeeded the curse.

* 1919 ,

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.

To support; to prosper; to promote.

* Dryden

Succeed my wish and second my design.

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.

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

To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.

To go under cover.

Verb

(head)

(UK) (realise)

Verb

(realis)

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