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takeovernoun the unlawful taking or withholding of something from the rightful owner under a guise of authoritythe new government's high-handed takeover of private industries appropriation, arrogation, commandeering, detainer, expropriation, preemption, seizure, usurpation annexation, assumption, attachment, confiscation, grab, impoundment, repossession, sequestrationdefalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, theftdespoilment, looting, pillagingencroachment, infringement, piracyinvasion, occupancy, occupation, preoccupancy, trespassdeforcement, disfurnishment, dispossession, ejection, stripping take oververbto serve as a replacement usually for a time onlyI'll take over for her until she gets back from her morning break cover, fill in, pinch-hit, stand in, step in, sub, substitute understudyrelieve, spelldouble (as) to take to or upon oneselftook over the responsibility of caring for the animals accept, assume, bear, shoulder, undertake adopt, embrace, take upadvocate, back, champion, endorse(also indorse), espouse, stand by, support, upholdaccede, acquiesce, agree, assent, consentreaccept, reassume disavow, disclaim, disown, repudiate abjure, recant, renounce, retract, take back, unsay, withdrawdecline, refuse, reject, spurn, turn downabstain (from), forbear, refrain (from)avoid, bypass, detourabandon, abnegate, forsake, give up, relinquish, spurn, surrenderback down, back off, backtrack to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightstudents protesting the war took over the college's radio station appropriate, arrogate, commandeer, convert, expropriate, pirate, preempt, press, seize, usurp annex, attach, claim, confiscate, impound, repossess, sequesterassume, collar, grab, grasp, snatch, steal, wrench, wrestdespoil, loot, pillageencroach, infringe, invade, occupy, preoccupy, trespassembezzle, misapply, misappropriate, misuse, peculate in 1618 |