See commandeer in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To take quick and forcible possession of:
confiscate, expropriate, grab, seize, snatch. Idiom: help oneself to. See giveTo lay claim to for oneself or as one's right:
appropriate, arrogate, assume, preempt, seize, take, usurp. See give
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