muddle vs succeed

muddle

verb
  • To think and act in a confused, aimless way. 

  • To dabble in mud. 

  • To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. 

  • To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. 

  • To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. 

  • To make turbid or muddy. 

  • To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. 

noun
  • A mixture of crushed ingredients, as prepared with a muddler. 

  • A mixture; a confusion; a garble. 

succeed

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

  • To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (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 muddle and succeed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )