Take over

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1. take... over (to) p.v. When you take something from one place to another, you take it over or take it over to a person or place.

Jane's at home sick, so I'm going to take some chicken soup over.

After I finished my report, I took it over to the finance department.

2. take... over p.v. When people, groups, or countries take control of a place by force, they take it over.

After the government troops fled, the country was taken over by the rebels.

The hijackers took over the plane and ordered the pilot to fly to Havana.

takeover n. A takeover is an action to take control of a country, city, building, or other place by force.

If the situation doesn't stabilize soon, there's a real chance of a military takeover.

3. take over (from/as) p.v. When people are elected, appointed, or hired to take control of a country, state, city, business, school, building, and so on, and to replace the people in control, they take over, take over as something, or take over from someone.

Cartos Ortega will be taking over as sales manager next year.

Ortega took over from Margaret Cummings, who had been the sales manager for 14 years.

takeover n. When people who are elected, appointed, or hired take control of a country, state, city, business, school, building, and so on, and replace the people in control, a takeover occurs.

After the takeover, the new president made a lot of changes.

4. take over (for) p.v. When you start to do a job or some work that other people are doing in order to allow them to take a break or because the previous shift has ended and a new shift has begun, you take over. When you assume an obligation or accept responsibility from someone, you take it over.

We work from 4:00 p.m. to midnight, and then the graveyard shift takes over.

When Linda was sick she couldn't care for her children, so her sister took over for her until she was well again.

1. wipe... out p.v. When you remove dirt or liquid from the inside of a container with a cloth, sponge, or paper towel, you wipe it out.

Wipe the microwave out — it's got spaghetti sauce inside it.

I wiped out the inside of the glasses so they wouldn't dry with spots.

2. wipe... out p.v. When you are trying to kill people, weeds, insects, and so on, and you kill all of them, you wipe them out.

An entire regiment was wiped out in the battle.

The general said he would wipe out the rebels.

wipeout n. A situation in which all people, weeds, insects, and so on, are killed is a wipeout.

The battle was a complete wipeout. Not a single soldier survived.