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vb. (en-third-person singulartake control)
Usage examples of "takes control".
It's the sweetest of moments when the fire takes control, and you're no longer responsible for anything.
Hebe, the goddess of youth and servant to the older gods, flashes down in a flying chariot, Hera takes control, and Athena also leaps aboard, dropping her robe while buckling on her breastplate.
The unease takes control of him, making his muscles stiffen so that the pain grows sharper and more intense.
This sets up a skittering harmonic through my logic processors that I suppress immediately, not wishing to tip myself over the edge and activate the Resartus Protocol that automatically takes control of a Bolo whose programming has gone unstable.
Next week he takes control of the Dione satellite-engineering consortium the one that's to build the European section of Zap-Star.
As I think I've said before, while fear usually takes control of my limbs, particularly my running equipment, it seldom prevents me from thinking clearly.
What happens in that frantic millisecond when panic, or rage, or pure cold-bloodedness takes control?
Two souls can not long abide in one body before one takes control and the other becomes but a shadow.
Richard remains in my care until he comes of age and takes control of his own affairs.