Replace
Take over
Take over verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Replace and take over are semantically related in substitute topic. Sometimes you can use "Replace" instead a verb "Take over", if it concerns topics such as interchange, override, come after, remove from position of responsibility.
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Horrible, being a supervillain, wants take over the world; that is, replace the current leadership; that is, metaphorically cut off the head.
Source: Analogy Backfire - The series has the supervillain Headmaster, who uses a machine to replace robots heads and take over their bodies, whose real name is Henry Masterson.
Source: Steven Ulysses Perhero -
His goal is to take over the world and replace the human race with his army of genetically engineered monsters.
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Take over and Replace. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/replace/take_over
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