succeed

Autumn succeeds summer.

The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.

Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.

Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died.

The persecution of any righteous practice has never succeeded in the face of history; in fact, it can expedite the collapse of the persecutory regime.

voted most likely to succeed

Succeed my wish and second my design.

A paterfamilias could arrange a marriage or emancipate a child without its mother's consent, and if the mother died intestate (possibly because her tutor refused to approve her will) her estate succeeded to her siblings, not to her husband or children, […]

Else let my brother die, / If not a feodary, but only he / Owe and succeed thy weakness.}}

Who, ever as he saw him nigh succeed, / Gan cry aloud with horrible affright, […]