To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
To begin a colony or colonies.
To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
To assume control of something, especially by force; to usurp.
To become more successful (than someone or something else).
To appropriate something without permission.
To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
To buy out the ownership of a business.
To relieve someone temporarily.
To annex a territory by conquest or invasion.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.