Synonyms of the word

arrogate

• v. (transitive) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.

arrogate

• v. (transitive) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.

assign

• v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
• v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
• v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
• v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
• v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
• n. An assignee.
• n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

assume

• v. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
• v. To take on a position, duty or form.
• v. To adopt a feigned quality or manner.
• v. To receive or adopt.
• v. To adopt an idea or cause.

bespeak

• v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
• v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
• v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
• v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
• v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
• v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
• n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

claim

• n. A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
• n. A new statement of something you believed to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified…
• n. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush).
• n. (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
• v. To demand ownership of.
• v. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
• v. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
• v. (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
• v. (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
• v. (archaic) To proclaim.
• v. (archaic) To call or name.

quest

• n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
• n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
• n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
• n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
• n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
• v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
• v. To search for; to examine.
• v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

request

• n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
• n. A formal message requesting something.
• n. Condition of being sought after.
• n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
• v. to express the need or desire for.
• v. to ask somebody to do something.

seize

• v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

usurp

• v. To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
• v. To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.
• v. (obsolete) To make use of.
• v. To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.