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expropriatingverbpresent participle 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 appropriating, arrogating, commandeering, converting, pirating, preempting, pressing, seizing, taking over, usurping annexing, attaching, claiming, confiscating, impounding, repossessing, sequesteringassuming, collaring, grabbing, grasping, snatching, stealing, wrenching, wrestingdespoiling, looting, pillagingencroaching, infringing, invading, occupying, preoccupying, trespassingembezzling, misapplying, misappropriating, misusing, peculating to end the occupancy or possession ofthe state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road dispossessing, divesting, ousting deforcing, evictingdisfurnishing, strippingbereaving, depriving, disinheritingannexing, appropriating, commandeering, impounding, seizing, taking over, usurping 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 attaching, confiscating, sequestering garnisheeingappropriating, arrogating, preempting, usurpingcommandeering, seizing, taking over ceding, delivering, forfeiting, giving up, handing over, releasing, relinquishing, rendering, surrendering, turning over, yielding |