All commandeer synonyms

verb commandeer

• confiscate — If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
• hijack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
• activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
• annex — If a country annexes another country or an area of land, it seizes it and takes control of it.
• assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
• arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
• sequestrate — Law. to sequester (property). to confiscate.
• sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
• snatch — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
• preempt — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
• requisition — the act of requiring or demanding.
• draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
• take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• usurp — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
• appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
• grab — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
• liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
• conscript — A conscript is a person who has been made to join the armed forces of a country.
• seize — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
• capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
• take over — the act of taking.
• draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
• accroach — to assume to oneself without right or authority; usurp.