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EXPROPRIATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they expropriate ... he / she / it expropriates
Past simple: expropriated
Past participle: expropriated
-ing form: expropriating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deprive of possessions
Example:
The Communist government expropriated the landowners
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "expropriate" is one way to...):
deprive; divest; strip (take away possessions from someone)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
expropriation (taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority))
