Broken
Broken adjective - Forcibly separated into many pieces.
Taken over and broken are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Taken over" instead an adjective "Broken".
Taken over
Broken and taken over are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Broken" instead an adjective phrase "Taken over".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- BIONICLE: Mata Nui resurrected his old broken prototype on Bara Magna to fight his evil brother, Makuta, who had taken over his body.
Source: Flawed Prototype - By the end of the third season, a war has broken out between two parallel universes, and time travel and questions of pre-destination have taken over the plot.
Source: Going Cosmic -
It has a similar premise... Gotham being taken over by a mercenary group, the lead villain developing a superweapon, Batman being broken, captured, and revealed as Bruce Wayne, and even Bruce faking his death at the end.
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