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expropriate
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of EXPROPRIATE
1
to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right <dissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime>
Synonyms arrogate, commandeer, convert, expropriate, pirate, preempt, press, seize, take over, usurp
2
to end the occupancy or possession of <the state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road>
Related Words deforce, evict; disfurnish, strip; bereave, deprive, disinherit; annex, appropriate, commandeer, impound, seize, take over, usurp
3
to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority <plans by the city to expropriate entire blocks of houses in order to bulldoze them for expansion of the airport>
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