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commandeering
Synonyms and Antonyms of commandeering
- the Spanish navy's commandeering of fishing boats and impressment of fishermen
annexation, assumption, attachment, confiscation, grab, impoundment, repossession, sequestration
defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, theft
despoilment, looting, pillaging
encroachment, infringement, piracy
invasion, occupancy, occupation, preoccupancy, trespass
deforcement, disfurnishment, dispossession, ejection, stripping
commandeering
Synonyms and Antonyms of commandeering
- an airliner commandeered by terrorists
hijacking (also highjacking)
- commandeered all of the equipment, as if the chem lab belonged solely to him
annexing, attaching, claiming, confiscating, impounding, repossessing, sequestering
assuming, collaring, grabbing, grasping, snatching, stealing, wrenching, wresting
despoiling, looting, pillaging
encroaching, infringing, invading, occupying, preoccupying, trespassing
embezzling, misapplying, misappropriating, misusing, peculating
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