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expropriatedverbpast tense of expropriate to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightdissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime appropriated, arrogated, commandeered, converted, pirated, preempted, pressed, seized, took over, usurped annexed, attached, claimed, confiscated, impounded, repossessed, sequesteredassumed, collared, grabbed, grasped, snatched, stole, wrenched, wresteddespoiled, looted, pillagedencroached, infringed, invaded, occupied, preoccupied, trespassedembezzled, misapplied, misappropriated, misused, peculated to end the occupancy or possession ofthe state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road dispossessed, divested, ousted deforced, evicteddisfurnished, stripped(also stript)bereaved(or bereft), deprived, disinheritedannexed, appropriated, commandeered, impounded, seized, took over, usurped 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 attached, confiscated, sequestered garnisheedappropriated, arrogated, preempted, usurpedcommandeered, seized, took over ceded, delivered, forfeited, gave up, handed over, released, relinquished, rendered, surrendered, turned over, yielded |