All arrogate synonyms

verb arrogate

• confiscate — If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
• presume — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
• seize — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
• assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
• commandeer — If the armed forces commandeer a vehicle or building owned by someone else, they officially take charge of it so that they can use it.
• preempt — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
• appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
• take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• usurp — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• accroach — to assume to oneself without right or authority; usurp.
• claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
• lay claim to — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
• misappropriate — to put to a wrong use.
• take over — the act of taking.
• annex — If a country annexes another country or an area of land, it seizes it and takes control of it.