Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Expropriate

Expropriate , transitive verb

[Latin ex out, from + proprius one's own: compare French exproprier.]

To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. — Boyle
Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament. — M. Arnold