EXPROPRIATING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

expropriating

verb

present participle of expropriate

as in seizing

to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right dissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime

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as in evicting

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 confiscating

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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Recent Examples of expropriating In his view, the administration is effectively expropriating the decision-making power of owners and handing it to the state. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026

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Many developed a deep affection for the country and its artistic innovations, while seizing on business opportunities.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
And some have responded by seizing the female obsession with looks, already rooted in misogyny, and rebranding it with maximum toxicity—in other words, by becoming looksmaxxers.

— Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026

Definition of seizing

Verb

Now that same board is evicting Aust and nearly 100 other patients from the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
The ordinance would require landlords to provide a valid reason before evicting a tenant or declining to renew their lease.

— Megan De Mar, CBS News, 29 June 2026

Definition of evicting

Verb

In some videos, survivors accused soldiers of looting apartments and confiscating donated supplies—claims that remain difficult to independently verify but have fueled widespread outrage.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
Amid anecdotal reports that airport security services have been confiscating bottles of ranch dressing that sports tourists have tried to smuggle out of the country, Kraft Heinz came up with a TSA-friendly size of ranch dressing.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 June 2026

Definition of confiscating

Verb

Those charges stem from Vick allegedly breaking into a former girlfriend’s home, and he is accused of stealing multiple electronic devices, as well as unscrewing the camera that had been located on the porch of her home.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
Do resigned and admitted to stealing millions in discretionary funds meant to help seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic, instead directing the money to a nonprofit connected to him, according to an LAist report.

— Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 13 July 2026

Definition of stealing

Verb

Mandi was in control of the ball, going nowhere fast, and there was little prospect of dispossessing him from Messi’s position.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 17 June 2026
How a state comes to control another land and its people, sometimes slowly dispossessing the natives of their lands, sometimes laying waste to them, sometimes committing genocide.

— Philip Metres August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025

Definition of dispossessing

Verb

Beulah's spurned heir Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) calls up the mysterious Mariana (Raoul Max Trujillo) to help with his many problems, which include his ranch-usurping half-brother Rob-Will and those Duttons from Montana.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 3 July 2026
The opposition’s narrative that Hollywood is usurping home rule is entirely backward.

— Keith Poliakoff, Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2026

Definition of usurping

Verb

Some employees also owe their employers a deeper fiduciary duty, which one court has described as the duty to protect the employer’s interests and to avoid injuring the employer or depriving the employer of the employee’s skills.

— Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2026
Extreme heat is already a headache for many data centers, raising the chances electricity will go away, depriving customers of their sweet, sweet AI.

— Mark Gongloff, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

Definition of depriving

Verb

College students would drive—or bike—across the city to shop there before grabbing a snack—perhaps a nutritious multigrain muffin?

— Roseann Cattani, USA Today, 10 July 2026
McKay is accused of grabbing the boy by his ankles, pinning him on the ground and then holding him down by the ankles on the seat portion of a chair.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026

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