To fail in a manner that brings down further misfortune.
To fire in the opposite direction, for example due to an obstruction in the barrel.
To experience a premature ignition of fuel or an ignition of exhaust gases, making a popping sound.
An explosion in other equipment.
An explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.
A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in the wrong direction.
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.