Meaning

1. To follow something in sequence or time.
2. To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title.
3. To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to).
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).
5. 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).
6. To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
7. To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
8. To turn out, fare, do (well or ill).
9. To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to.
10. To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to).
11. (obsolete) To fall heir to; to inherit.
12. (obsolete) To go down or near (with to).