succeed

v. prosper; achieve, attain; come after, follow; take the place of; inherit

Verb
1. attain success or reach a desired goal; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won"
(synonym) win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
(antonym) fail, go wrong, miscarry
(hyponym) hit
(entail) try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
(derivation) achiever, winner, success, succeeder
2. be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"
(synonym) come after, follow
(antonym) precede, come before
(hyponym) accede, enter
(derivation) sequence, chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession

(v. t.)
To support; to prosper; to promote.
  

(v. t.)
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.
  

(v. t.)
To fall heir to; to inherit.
  

(v. t.)
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
  

(v. i.)
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.
  

(v. i.)
To go under cover.
  

(v. i.)
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
  

(v. i.)
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.
  

(v. i.)
Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
  

yi4 ju3 liang3 de2
Obtaining two things in one act.
Getting two separate results in one go. Killing two birds with one stone. Compare with 一箭双雕 (yi2 jian4 shuang1 diao1) and 百发百中 (bai3 fa1 bai3 zhong4).

yi2 bang4 yong3 qi4 zhen1 yi2 dun4 yun4 qi4
A pound of courage is worth a ton of success.
The one that dares has already won.

yi2 jian4 shuang1 diao1
Shooting two hawks with one arrow.
Getting two separate results in one go. Killing two birds with one stone. Compare with 一举两得 (yi4 ju3 liang3 de2) and 百发百中 (bai3 fa1 bai3 zhong4).

da4 qi4 wan3 cheng2
A big vessel takes longer to complete.
A great mind takes longer to mature. Often describing persons that become famous in their later years, but also used to console people who have over long years failed reaching their goals.

cheng2 ye3 xiao1 he2, bai4 ye3 xiao1 he2
Both done and undone by Xiao He.
Meaning that both the success and the failure of something was caused by one and the same person.

bai3 fa1 bai3 zhong4
A hundred arrows, a hundred hits.
Every shot hits the target. Never failing. Compare with 一箭双雕 (yi2 jian4 shuang1 diao1) and 一举两得 (yi4 ju3 liang3 de2).

Synonyms and related words:
accomplish, achieve, act for, advance, arrive, attain, attend, be a gas, be a hit, be a success, be blooded, be successful, be victorious, bill, bomb, boom, break the record, bring off, bring through, c, carry off, catch on, change hands, change ownership, change places with, clear, clear the hurdle, click, come after, come along, come by, come in for, come into, come off, come on, compass, connect, conquer, consummate, contrive, crowd out, crown with success, cut out, cut the mustard, deal with, descend, devolve, discharge, dispatch, displace, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick, do well, double for, dow, dramatize, effect, effectuate, emanate, enact, engineer, enjoy prosperity, ensue, execute, fail, farewell, feature, fetch, fill in for, flop, flourish, follow, follow after, follow up, fulfill, gain, get ahead, get along, get by, get on, get on swimmingly, get on well, ghost, ghostwrite, go, go after, go great guns, go off, go on, go over, go over big, go to town, go well, graduate, hack it, headline, heir, hit the mark, inherit, issue, knock off, make, make a hit, make good, make headway, make it, make out, make progress, make the grade, manage, manage somehow, meet with success, melodramatize, mount, muddle through, negotiate, open, open a show, overtake, pan out, pass, pass on, perform, pinch-hit, polish off, premiere, present, prevail, preview, produce, progress, prosper, prove out, pull off, put across, put away, put on, put over, put through, qualify, reach, realize, relieve, replace, represent, result, scenarize, score, scrape along, set the stage, spell, spell off, stage, stand in for, star, subrogate, substitute for, succeed in, succeed to, supersede, supervene, supplant, swap places with, swing, swing the deal, take, take care of, theatricalize, thrive, track, trail, triumph, try out, turn out well, turn the trick, understudy for, win, win out, work, work out, work well, work wonders, worry along