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appropriated
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set aside; allocate |
| Synonyms: | allot, allow, appoint, apportion, assign, budget, devote, disburse, earmark, reserve, set apart |
| Antonyms: | keep, refuse, reject |
| Main Entry: | abducted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taken away by force |
| Synonyms: | appropriated, kidnapped, seized, snatched, stolen |
| Main Entry: | destined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | en route, on the road to |
| Synonyms: | appointed, appropriated, assigned, bent upon, booked, bound for, chosen, consigned, delegated, designated, determined, directed, entrained, heading, ordered to, prepared, routed, scheduled, specified |
| Main Entry: | reserved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | held for future use |
| Synonyms: | appropriated, arrogated, booked, claimed, engaged, kept, laid away, limited, preempted, private, qualified, restricted, retained, roped off, set apart, set aside, spoken for, taken |
| Antonyms: | given, offered, unreserved |
| Main Entry: | distributed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delivered |
| Synonyms: | allocated, allotted, apportioned, appropriated, assigned, budgeted, dealt, diffuse, dispensed, dispersed, divided, doled out, given away, handed out, rationed, scattered, shared, spread evenly |
| Main Entry: | stolen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taken |
| Synonyms: | abducted, appropriated, bagged, diverted, embezzled, filched, hijacked, kept, kidnapped, lifted, misappropriated, pinched, plagiarized, poached, purloined, ripped off, robbed, sacked, shanghaied, snatched, swiped |
| Main Entry: | taken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | captured |
| Synonyms: | appropriated, arrested, seized |
| Main Entry: | adopt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choose or take something as one's own |
| Synonyms: | accept, adapt, affiliate, affirm, appropriate, approve, assent, assume, borrow, embrace, endorse, espouse, follow, go down the line, go in for, imitate, maintain, mimic, opt, ratify, seize, select, support, take on, take over, take up, tap, use, utilize |
| Antonyms: | disown, leave alone, reject, repudiate, repulse |
| Main Entry: | allocate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assign; divide among |
| Synonyms: | admeasure, allot, apportion, appropriate, budget, cut, designate, dish out, divvy, earmark, give, mete, set aside, share, slice |
| Notes: | to allocate something is to set it aside for a specific purpose; to allot something is to give it with an implied restriction and an understanding of sharing |
| Antonyms: | keep, keep together |
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