expropriated

verb

Definition of expropriatednext
past tense of expropriate
1
as in seized
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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2
as in evicted
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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3
as in confiscated
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 Synonyms for expropriated
  1. seized
  2. evicted
  3. confiscated
  4. deprived
  5. appropriated
  6. occupied
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  • Laboratory analysis also identified heroin among the drugs seized.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Agents also seized roughly $420,000 in cash.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • More than 24,000 eviction cases were filed in Bexar County last year, and the number of households evicted continued to rise above pre-pandemic levels, local data shows.
    Megan Stringer, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
  • None of the low-income participants in Rx Kids reported being evicted since childbirth, compared with other groups, according to the survey.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2024
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  • In 2022, the Saudi ambassador in Beirut reported that the authorities in the kingdom had confiscated 700 million tablets smuggled from Lebanon since 2014.
    Tim Lister, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Authorities also confiscated the suspects' passports and imposed restrictions on their communication with others.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • Jordan and her siblings were routinely physically, verbally and mentally abused by their parents, who reportedly chained their children to their beds and deprived them of food and the ability to exercise.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • For example, in the restaurant industry 74% of chefs report they are sleep deprived to the point of exhaustion, and more than half feel pushed to the breaking point.
    Mind Share Partners, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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  • This appears to create a fund into which unlimited funds can be appropriated, guaranteeing that taxpayers will never get a refund of their tax dollars.
    Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches.
    Molly Redden, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2024
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  • Huckabee has advocated for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank, which Israel occupied in 1967, and has backed Israeli settlers in the territory.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In early 2023, Greenpeace activists boarded and occupied a Shell floating production, storage and offloading vessel while it was being transported in the Atlantic Ocean.
    Chloe Taylor,Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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