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commandeer
[kom-uhn-deer]
verb (used with object)
to order or force into active military service.
to seize (private property) for military or other public use.
The police officer commandeered a taxi and took off after the getaway car.
to seize arbitrarily.
commandeer
/ ˌɒəˈɪə /
verb
to seize for public or military use
to seize arbitrarily
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of commandeer1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of commandeer1
Example Sentences
Ellie charges through sheets of rain and commandeers a boat into the choppy waters of Elliott Bay, washing up on a local island's shore to be captured and nearly killed by Seraphites.
The students had gone to Iguala to commandeer buses to take them to an annual protest in Mexico City.
A group of prisoners, gaunt and starving, are commandeered to serve as unusually cooperative movie extras.
At stake is our outrage that the beauty in this world has been commandeered by people who act like they own the planet.
Because the city has failed, he said, the receiver would have authority “vested by the court to commandeer what it needs within the city in order to solve this problem.”
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