to take for one's own use, confiscate
give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
take possession of by force, as in after an invasion
SYN - Allow, earmark, reserve, set, capture, conquer, seize
"The police officers followed the smell of pot into the stoner's basement and appropriated the goods. They were'nt worried about fining or iving a ticket to these two deadheads they just wanted the pot for the imax movie they were oging to see."
"The obvious down side of a centralised system like the soviets is the many times that the government would appropriate the goods and resources of its citizens."
"His parents burst in the door saying they came wiht the intention of appropriating his stash of Pinneaple Express."
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