English > arrogate: 3 senses > verb 1, possession| Meaning | demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | claim, lay claim |
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| Narrower | arrogate, assign | make undue claims to having |
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| pretend | Put forward a claim and assert right or possession of |
| requisition | demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service |
| Broader | request, ask for, bespeak, call for, quest | Express the need or desire for |
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| Opposite | forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo, forego | Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime |
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| Similar to | claim, take | lay claim to |
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| Spanish | atribuirse, reclamar, reivindicar |
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| Nouns | arrogator | a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess |
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English > arrogate: 3 senses > verb 3, possession| Meaning | seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | assume, usurp, seize, take over |
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| Narrower | annex | Take (territory) as if by conquest |
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| appropriate, capture, seize, conquer | Take possession of by force, as after an invasion |
| hijack | seize control of |
| preoccupy | Occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance |
| raid | take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock |
| Broader | take | Take by force |
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| Spanish | anexar, apoderar, capturar, confiscar, embargar, incautar, usurpar |
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| Catalan | apoderar, capturar, confiscar, embargar, incautar, usurpar |
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| Nouns | arrogation | seizure by the government |
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| arrogator | a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess |
