Take over
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1. take... over (to) p.v. When you take something from one place to another, you take itover ortake itover to a person or place.
Jane's at home sick, so I'm going totake some chicken soupover.
After I finished my report, Itook itover to the finance department.
2. take... over p.v. When people, groups, or countries take control of a place by force, theytake itover.
After the government troops fled, the country wastaken over by the rebels.
The hijackerstook 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 militarytakeover.
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, theytake over, take over as something, ortake overfrom someone.
Cartos Ortega will betaking over as sales manager next year.
Ortegatook 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, atakeover occurs.
After thetakeover, 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, youtake over. When you assume an obligation or accept responsibility from someone, youtake itover.
We work from 4:00 p.m. to midnight, and then the graveyard shifttakes over.
When Linda was sick she couldn't care for her children, so her sistertook over for her until she was well again.
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1. wipe... out p.v. When you remove dirt or liquid from the inside of a container with a cloth, sponge, or paper towel, youwipe itout.
Wipe the microwaveout — it's got spaghetti sauce inside it.
Iwiped 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 themout.
An entire regiment waswiped out in the battle.
The general said he wouldwipe out the rebels.
wipeout n. A situation in which all people, weeds, insects, and so on, are killed is awipeout.
The battle was a completewipeout. Not a single soldier survived.