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v. To deprive of possession: expropriated the property owners who lived in the path of the new highway.

v. To transfer (another's property) to oneself.

v. To deprive a person of their private property for public use.

v. To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.

To hold no longer as one's own; disengage from appropriation; give up a claim to the exclusive property of.

To take or condemn for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner.

Hence To dispossess; exclude, in general.

v. deprive of possessions

"This contrasts with the political argument of the far-left, to expropriate from the rich to serve the “base”, the working class."

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divest    deprive    strip   

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