take over

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to begin to do something that someone else was doing
Example: Are you calling me in to take over my old job?
to take control of something
Example: At no time should the mentor take over control of the other's life.

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assume control ofcome to power ingain control oftake command of

Real examples of "take over" in context

And he's puffed up and he's going to take over the world.

Yeah. So it takes over the world completely. Well, if every step was a day, it would take 73 days for the infection to take over this entire world.

Once asleep again, Bill would reveal his true intentions to Ford now about wanting to the Nightmare Realm crew to take over the third dimension.