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COMMANDEER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they commandeer ... he / she / it commandeers
Past simple: commandeered
Past participle: commandeered
-ing form: commandeering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take arbitrarily or by force
Example:
The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
Synonyms:
commandeer; highjack; hijack; pirate
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "commandeer" is one way to...):
seize (take or capture by force)
Domain category:
crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "commandeer"):
skyjack (subject an aircraft to air piracy)
carjack (take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
