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commandeeringnoun the unlawful taking or withholding of something from the rightful owner under a guise of authoritythe Spanish navy's commandeering of fishing boats and impressment of fishermen appropriation, arrogation, detainer, expropriation, preemption, seizure, takeover, usurpation annexation, assumption, attachment, confiscation, grab, impoundment, repossession, sequestrationdefalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, theftdespoilment, looting, pillagingencroachment, infringement, piracyinvasion, occupancy, occupation, preoccupancy, trespassdeforcement, disfurnishment, dispossession, ejection, stripping to take control of (a vehicle) by forcean airliner commandeered by terrorists to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightcommandeered all of the equipment, as if the chem lab belonged solely to him appropriating, arrogating, converting, expropriating, 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 |