1) Commandeer 2) Usurp 1) Deprive 2) Deprive of possessions 3) Divest 4) Strip 
• (v. t.) To put out of one`s possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
To transfer ownership of private property, against the will of its owner, to government. The possibility of expropriation is one of the risks of foreign direct investment.
Ex·pro'pri·ate transitive verb [ Latin ex out, from + proprius one's own: confer French exproprier .] To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. Boyle. « Expropriate these [ bad landlor...
[v] - deprive of possessions
expropriate To take property or money from someone, either legally for the public good or illegally by theft or fraud.
verb deprive of possessions; `The Communist government expropriated the landowners`
to take possession of, esp. for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner: The government expropriated the land for a recreation area. · to dispossess (a person) of ownership: The revolutionary government expropriated the landowners from their estates. · to take (something) from another's po...