vi to go under cover.
2. succeed ·vt to fall heir to; to inherit.
3. succeed ·vi specifically: to ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
4. succeed ·vi to descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
5. succeed ·vt to support; to prosper; to promote.
6. succeed ·vt to come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
7. succeed ·vt 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.
8. succeed ·vi to obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
9. succeed ·vi 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.