1. To make undue claims to having; SYN. ascribe, assign.
2. To claim unduly as one's own; to ascribe
3. Take or claim beyond one's rights.
1. To ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example.
2. To assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing.
3. To demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; SYN. lay claim, arrogate.
4. To lay claim to; as of an idea; SYN. take.
5. To take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; SYN. take, call for, exact.
To take arbitrarily or by force; SYN. hijack, highjack, pirate, expropriate.
ETYM Latin ex out, from + proprius one's own: cf. French exproprier.
1. To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
2. Deprive of; transfer ownership of.
1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
2. To represent falsely; to present as true or real something untrue or unreal; to show hypocritically, or for the purpose.of deceiving; to simulate; to feign
3. To make believe, to engage in fictional play.