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appropriate
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of APPROPRIATE
1
to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right <archaeologists once freely appropriated artifacts excavated at ancient African sites for their museums in Europe>
Synonyms arrogate, commandeer, convert, expropriate, pirate, preempt, press, seize, take over, usurp
2
to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep <you can't just appropriate somebody's term paper and put your name on it!>
Synonyms appropriate, boost [slang], filch, heist, hook, lift, misappropriate, nick [British slang], nip, pilfer, pinch, pocket, purloin, rip off, snitch, swipe, thieve
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