expropriate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
expropriate
    v 1: deprive of possessions; "The Communist government
         expropriated the landowners"
from The 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]
from 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
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