give out vs succeed

give out

verb
  • To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report. 

  • To issue; to distribute. 

  • To announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing. 

  • To complain, sulk, chastise. 

  • To desist. 

  • To put forth, utter (prayers). 

  • To break down, get out of order, fail. 

  • To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth. 

  • To run short, come to an end. 

  • To desist through exhaustion of strength or patience. 

succeed

verb
  • To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to. 

  • To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant. 

  • To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort. 

  • To follow something in sequence or time. 

  • To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general. 

  • To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to). 

  • 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). 

  • To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to). 

  • To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title. 

How often have the words give out and succeed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )