take over
verb
High School
1
To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
2
To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
3
To relieve someone temporarily.
4
To buy out the ownership of a business.
5
To appropriate something without permission.
6
To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
7
To become more successful than (someone or something else).
8
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.