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appropriatingverbpresent participle of appropriate to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightarchaeologists wrongfully appropriated artifacts excavated at ancient sites for their museums arrogating, commandeering, 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 to take (something) without right and with an intent to keepyou can't just appropriate somebody's term paper and put your name on it! boosting(slang), filching, heisting, hooking, lifting, misappropriating, nicking(British slang), nipping, pilfering, pinching, pocketing, purloining, ripping off, snitching, stealing, swiping, thieving burglarizing, knocking over, robbinglooting, pillaging, plundering, sackingcarjacking, hijacking(also highjacking)picking, riflingpoaching, rustling, shopliftingcollaring, grabbing, grasping, nailing, seizing, snatching, takingmooching, spongingabducting, kidnapping(also kidnaping), shanghaiing, spiriting making away with, making off with, running off with, walking off with buying, purchasingbestowing, contributing, donating, giving, handing over, presenting |