The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Succeed \Suc*ceed"\, v. i.
   1. 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.
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            If the father left only daughters, they equally
            succeeded to him in copartnership.    --Sir M. Hale.
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            Enjoy till I return
            Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed!
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the
      death of the occupant.
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            No woman shall succeed in Salique land. --Shak.
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   3. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same
      family; to devolve. --Shak.
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   4. 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.
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            It is almost impossible for poets to succeed without
            ambition.                             --Dryden.
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            Spenser endeavored it in Shepherd's Kalendar; but
            neither will it succeed in English.   --Dryden.
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   5. To go under cover. [A latinism. Obs.]
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            Will you to the cooler cave succeed!  --Dryden.
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   Syn: To follow; pursue. See Follow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Succeed \Suc*ceed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Succeeded; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Succeeding.] [L. succedere, successum; sub under +
   cedere to go, to go along, approach, follow, succeed: cf. F.
   succ['e]der. See Cede, and cf. Success.]
   1. 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.
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            As he saw him nigh succeed.           --Spenser.
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   2. To fall heir to; to inherit. [Obs. & R.] --Shak.
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   3. To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to
      follow; to pursue.
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            Destructive effects . . . succeeded the curse. --Sir
                                                  T. Browne.
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   4. To support; to prosper; to promote. [R.]
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            Succeed my wish and second my design. --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

succeed
    v 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" [syn:
         succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon,
         deliver the goods] [ant: fail, go wrong, miscarry]
    2: be the successor (of); "Carter followed Ford"; "Will Charles
       succeed to the throne?" [syn: succeed, come after,
       follow] [ant: come before, precede]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

185 Moby Thesaurus words for "succeed":
   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