expropriate

3 definitions found

expropriate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Expropriate \Ex*pro"pri*ate\, v. t. [L. ex out, from + proprius
     one's own: cf. F. exproprier.]
     To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership
     of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
     --Boyle.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were
           expropriated by Act of Parliament.       --M. Arnold.
     [1913 Webster]

expropriate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  expropriate
      v 1: deprive of possessions; "The Communist government
           expropriated the landowners"

expropriate - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "expropriate":
     accroach, annex, arrogate, attach, collectivize, commandeer,
     communalize, communize, confiscate, cut off, disendow, disherison,
     disinherit, disown, dispossess, disseise, distrain, evict,
     foreclose, garnish, impound, impress, levy, nationalize, preempt,
     press, replevin, replevy, seize, sequester, sequestrate, socialize,
     take, take away