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1. Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
   - claim, lay claim
    
2. Make undue claims to having
   - assign
    
3. Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
   - assume, usurp, seize, take over

Derived forms: arrogating, arrogates, arrogated

See also: arrogation, arrogator

Type of: bespeak, call for, quest, request, take