All expropriate synonyms

verb expropriate

• 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.
• steal — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
• confiscate — If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
• seize — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
• commandeer — If the armed forces commandeer a vehicle or building owned by someone else, they officially take charge of it so that they can use it.
• appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
• sequester — to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
• impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
• annex — If a country annexes another country or an area of land, it seizes it and takes control of it.
• requisition — the act of requiring or demanding.
• 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.
• assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
• dispossess — to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
• preempt — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
• accroach — to assume to oneself without right or authority; usurp.
• take over — the act of taking.