(a) To come next after and replace someone, by descent, election, or other legal or customary means, in an office, a position, possession of property, the performance of an act, etc., succeed someone; also, with complementary inf.: gain the succession (to bear the crown); (b) ~ in (in-to, to), to succeed to (an office, a position); also, fig. succeed to (a state of pain and woe); (c) ~ after (to), to succeed (sb.) in an office, follow after (sb.) in a position; also, with complementary inf.: succeed (sb. in possessing the land); also, of an office, a law: take the place of (another office, another law); (d) to succeed (sb.) in an office, a position, etc.

To come after in an order of things.

To come after in the course of events, follow; ~ to, occur after (sth.).

(a) ?To continue, endure; -- with complementary inf.; (b) to turn out, come to an end.