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commandeer
verb as in seize, take over
Example Sentences
The Deltas also commandeered at least 200 ranches in the region, driving out families and transforming their homes into outposts and lookouts.
But even when Palestinians do that, settlers often come out to block them anyway, and they’ve commandeered areas that never required coordination in the past.
His dining table and buffet have been commandeered by Lego sets built by him and three of his children, as has his office.
Then the spring from where they drank was commandeered for the settlement’s use, even as the thousands of square miles open to his livestock shrank with every passing year.
Swift pointed out that nobody wants a guest to commandeer a wedding speech to flaunt their own relationship news.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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