press

¹press

verb

Definition of PRESS

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right <the fleeing bank robber pressed a nearby taxi into service as a getaway car>

Synonyms arrogate, commandeer, convert, expropriate, pirate, preempt, press, seize, take over, usurp

Related Words annex, attach, claim, confiscate, impound, repossess, sequester; assume, collar, grab, grasp, snatch, steal, wrench, wrest; despoil, loot, pillage; encroach, infringe, invade, occupy, preoccupy, trespass; embezzle, misapply, misappropriate, misuse, peculate