succeed

Türkçe: izlemek, yerine geçmek, halefi olmak

1. To follow something in sequence or time. (transitive) · Autumn succeeds summer.
2. To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title. (transitive) · The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.· After a contentious election, Jones succeeded Smith as president of the republic.
3. To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to). (intransitive)
4. 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). (intransitive) · Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne.· So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, the crown (or: property) falls to me.
5. To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant. (intransitive) · Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died.
6. To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort. (intransitive) · She succeeded in her efforts to repair the tank.
7. To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general. (intransitive) · voted most likely to succeed
8. To turn out, fare, do (well or ill). (dated, intransitive)

He/she/it succeeds · Geçmiş zaman succeeded · Üçüncü hâl (past participle) succeeded · -ing biçimi succeeding