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expropriateverb to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightdissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime appropriate, arrogate, commandeer, convert, pirate, preempt, press, seize, take over, usurp annex, attach, claim, confiscate, impound, repossess, sequesterassume, collar, grab, grasp, snatch, steal, wrench, wrestdespoil, loot, pillageencroach, infringe, invade, occupy, preoccupy, trespassembezzle, misapply, misappropriate, misuse, peculate to end the occupancy or possession ofthe state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road dispossess, divest, oust deforce, evictdisfurnish, stripbereave, deprive, disinheritannex, appropriate, commandeer, impound, seize, take over, usurp to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authorityplans by the city to expropriate entire blocks of houses in order to bulldoze them for expansion of the airport attach, confiscate, sequester garnisheeappropriate, arrogate, preempt, usurpcommandeer, seize, take over cede, deliver, forfeit, give up, hand over, release, relinquish, render, surrender, turn over, yield in 1611 |