To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
To bribe, especially to deter oversight.
To pay back; to repay.
To pay back (repay, pay off) the entirety of a loan, thereby effecting the release of a lien on.
To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general.
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 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 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.