Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - succeed

~ v 1 »NOT FAIL« to do what you have tried or wanted to do  (I'm sure you'll succeed if you work hard. | succeed in doing sth)  (Negotiators have not yet succeeded in establishing a cease-fire. | succeed only in doing sth (=fail and do the opposite of what you had wanted))  (You've only succeeded in upsetting your mother.) 2 »HAVE A GOOD RESULT« to have the result or effect something was intended to have  (The anti-smoking campaign has only partly succeeded.) 3 »REACH A HIGH POSITION« to do well in your job, especially because you have worked hard at it for a long time + as  (I'm not sure he has the determination to succeed as an actor.) + in  (Women need to be tough to succeed in the male-dominated world of business.) 4 »FOLLOW IN A POSITION« to be the next person to take a position or rank after someone else  (succeed sb as sth)  (Gingrich will succeed Foley as speaker of the house.) 5 »REPLACE« formal to come after and replace something else  (a new generation of computers designed to succeed their existing range) 6 nothing succeeds like success used to say that success often leads to even greater success