verb (v)

• attain success or reach a desired goal(verb.social)

  Example:
  The enterprise succeeded.
  We succeeded in getting tickets to the show.
  

  Synonym:
  bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, win
  Antonym:
  fail, go wrong, miscarry
  

  source: wordnet30
• be the successor (of)(verb.social)

  Example:
  Will Charles succeed to the throne?.
  

  Synonym:
  come after, follow
  Antonym:
  come before, precede
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• 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.(verb)

  source: webster1913