expropriates

present tense third-person singular of expropriate
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as in evicts
to end the occupancy or possession of the state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road

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as in confiscates
to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority plans by the city to expropriate entire blocks of houses in order to bulldoze them for expansion of the airport

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Verb
  • Against her will, Fadia becomes trapped in an asylum while her cousin seizes her inheritance, depriving her of even her right to grieve.
    Jenny S. Li, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Amelia Mitcham seizes opportunity to help her neighborhood A local investor has renovated a former tavern in Milwaukee's Merrill Park neighborhood.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the city of Cluj, located within the country’s Transylvania region, a bailiff named Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) evicts the homeless Ion (Gabriel Spahiu) from the unused cellar of a local house to make way for the construction of the Kontinental boutique hotel.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Bournemouth midfielder Alex Scott dispossesses Virgil van Dijk and Semenyo secures the loose ball.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The problem is that standing water in the soil deprives roots of oxygen.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • As in pneumonia, the blood pressure drop deprives vital organs of oxygen.
    Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But sometimes stress over the sheer volume of what’s on our plates steals the most precious moments.
    Sarah Scott, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That O’Connor steals the movie out from under Craig’s delightful bluster is accomplishment enough.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The agent then grabs Moreta-Galarza and forces her several feet down the hallway and into a wall.
    Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Jonah grabs Henry's gun and shoots him coldly in the head.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Most EVs also have an on-board charger (OBC) that takes AC from an outlet or Level 2 charger and converts that into DC for the battery.
    Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • After a few days, when these reserves are all used up, the body turns to stored fat and the liver converts the fat into ketones.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, because capital appropriates the powers of living labor to itself, the distinctiveness of the latter is deeply obscured.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Braisted explained that the school district answers to the state, which appropriates most federal funding for MNPS.
    Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Expropriates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expropriates. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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