to achieve something that you have been trying to do or get; to have the result or effect that was intended

to be successful in your job, earning money, power, respect, etc.

You will have to work hard if you are to succeed.

She doesn't have the ruthlessness required to succeed in business.

He had hoped to succeed as a violinist.

to come next after somebody/something and take their/its place or position

Who succeeded Kennedy as President?

Their early success was succeeded by a period of miserable failure.

Strands of DNA are reproduced through succeeding generations.

to gain the right to a title, property, etc. when somebody dies

She succeeded to the throne in 1558.

He had no right to succeed to the tenancy when his father died.

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