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COMMANDEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does commandeer mean?
• COMMANDEER (verb)
The verb COMMANDEER has 1 sense:
1. take arbitrarily or by force
Familiarity information: COMMANDEER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it commandeers Past simple: commandeered
Past participle: commandeered
-ing form: commandeering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take arbitrarily or by force
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
commandeer; highjack; hijack; pirate
Context example:
The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
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
Context examples
To replicate in host cell, viruses commandeer cellular signaling pathways.
(Human Cytomegalovirus Infection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
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