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Verb: expropriate  eks'prowpree`eyt
  1. Deprive of possessions
    "The Communist government expropriated the landowners"

Derived forms: expropriates, expropriated, expropriating

See also: expropriation

Type of: deprive, divest, strip

Encyclopedia: Expropriate