Overwhelm
Overwhelm verb - To subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress.
Takes and overwhelm are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Takes" with "Overwhelm", this verbs are similar.
Nearby Words: overwhelming, overwhelmingly
Takes
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Both words in one sentence
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In How Revenge of the Sith Should Have Ended, after Obi-Wan takes out Grievous's bodyguards, he has his battle droids surrounding Obi-Wan to simply overwhelm him and shoot him to death.
- It takes Jack becoming a Physical God to overwhelm and kill them, but in fairness, he's perfectly capable of killing the heroes too (and has already).
Source: Competence Zone - After a lengthy chase, he's cornered and numbers overwhelm him, though most of the actual beatdown takes place out of frame.
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Takes and Overwhelm. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/overwhelm/takes
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