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Expropriate   Listen
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Expropriate  v. t.  To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. "Expropriate these (bad landlords) as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Expropriate" Quotes from Famous Books



... cession, surrender, dispensation; quitclaim deed; resignation &c.757; riddance. derelict &c. adj.; foundling; jetsam, waif. discards, culls, rejects; garbage, refuse, rubbish. V. relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate|!, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf &c. (disuse) 678; set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon. give notice to quit, give warning; supersede; be rid of, get rid of, be quit of, get quit of; eject &c. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Expropriate" :   divest, strip



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