To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
To vie; to compete as a rival.
To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort.
To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant.
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 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.