3 Verbs to Use for the Word overlord

We see the people of the cities drawing together, building walls around their towns, and defying in their turn their so-called "overlords."

Well, but it is not right for us to understand our overlords, and, madman or not, I prefer you to Queen Stultitia and her preposterous rose-colored spectacles.

Excessive costs of empire building, including the disastrous losses of military struggle from 1914 to 1945, impoverished and weakened the European overlords to such an extent that they could no longer maintain their footholds in Africa.

3 Verbs to Use for the Word  overlord