Meaning

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