Expropriate

ahd-5
  • transitive verb. To take (a property) for public use.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hold no longer as one's own; disengage from appropriation; give up a claim to the exclusive property of.
  • To take or condemn for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner.
  • Hence To dispossess; exclude, in general.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To deprive a person of their private property for public use.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. deprive of possessions
    • Word Usage
    "This contrasts with the political argument of the far-left, to expropriate from the rich to serve the “base”, the working class."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deprive  divest  strip  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    appropriate  misappropriate  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    95-year-old  bibliographic  buy-to-let  foreign-currency  gray-whiskered  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accroach  annex  arrogate  attach  collectivize  
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