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hijack
verb as in seize control
Example Sentences
The Department of Education has long been a focal point for Trump’s war on “wokeness,” the president-elect and his allies depicting schools as a political battleground hijacked by the left.
Anderson said Moore and her ex-boyfriend, Anthony David Flores, had embarked on a scheme to exploit the victim, Mark Sawusch, and “hijack his fortune.”
She had boarded an American Airlines flight to Los Angeles that was hijacked.
These range from hijackings of freight lorries delivering food to warehouses to the theft of 24 live lobsters from a storage pen in Scotland.
Trading standards described the scam as "clever", with the website featuring a photo of a registered dentist based in south-west England, who had no idea their identity had been hijacked.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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