expropriate

Main Entry:
expropriate [eks-proh-pree-eyt]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: seize
Synonyms: accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, commandeer, confiscate, deprive of property, dispossess, impound, preempt, requisition, sequester, take, take over
Antonyms: appropriate, distribute, give
Main Entry: assume
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: adopt, acquire
Synonyms: annex, appropriate, arrogate, borrow, clap hands on, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, get fingers on, get hands on, glom onto, grab, grab hold of, hijack, kipe, liberate, moonlight requisition, preempt, seize, snatch, swipe, take over, usurp
Notes: assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case'
Antonyms: leave, let alone, not take
Main Entry: commandeer
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: seize, take over
Synonyms: accroach, activate, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, confiscate, conscript, draft, enslave, expropriate, grab, hijack, liberate, moonlight requisition, preempt, requisition, sequester, sequestrate, snatch, take, usurp
Main Entry: confiscate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: steal; seize
Synonyms: accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, assume, commandeer, confisticate, expropriate, glom on to, grab, hijack, impound, liberate, moonlight requisition, possess oneself of, preempt, sequester, sequestrate, swipe, take, take over, usurp
Antonyms: give, offer
Main Entry: deprive
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: keep or take away something wanted, needed
Synonyms: bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest
Antonyms: appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply
Main Entry: dispossess
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deprive
Synonyms: appropriate, eject, evict, expel, expropriate, oust, put out, throw into the street
Main Entry: preempt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take over in place of another
Synonyms: accroach, acquire, annex, anticipate, appropriate, arrogate, assume, bump, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, obtain, seize, sequester, take, usurp
Main Entry: take
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: steal
Synonyms: abduct, abstract, accroach, annex, appropriate, arrogate, borrow, carry off, commandeer, confiscate, expropriate, filch, haul in, liberate, lift*, misappropriate, nab, nail, nip, pick up, pinch*, pluck, pocket, preempt, pull in, purloin, rip off, run off with, salvage, seize, sequester, snag, snare, snatch*, snitch, swipe, take in
Antonyms: give, offer
Main Entry: foreclose
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take away the right to redeem a mortgage
Synonyms: confiscate, dispossess, expropriate, impound, seize
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