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   ex·pro·pri·ate

   /ˌeksˈprōprēˌāt/

   verb

   • 1. (especially of the state) take away (property) from its owner: "government plans to expropriate farmland"
   • ▪ dispossess (someone) of property: "the land reform expropriated the Irish landlords"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from medieval Latin expropriat- ‘taken from the owner’, from the verb expropriare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + proprium ‘property’, neuter singular of proprius ‘own’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. expropriator noun

   Scrabble Points: 22

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