[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

appropriated \appropriated\ adj.
   1. 1 taken without permission or consent especially by public
      authority.

   syn: confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over.
        wordnet 1.5

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

appropriate \appro"priate\, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   appropriated; p. pr.  vb. n. appropriating.
   1. to take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or
      use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate
      the use of a common benefit.
      1913 webster

   2. to set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or
      use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a
      spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to
      appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
      1913 webster

   3. to make suitable; to suit. archaic --paley.
      1913 webster

   4. eng. eccl. law to annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual
      corporation, as its property. --blackstone.
      1913 webster
see also:
appropriated appropriating 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

appropriated
     adj : taken without permission or consent especially by public
           authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway
           cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down
           the drain" syn: condemned, confiscate, confiscated,
            seized, taken over
see also:
condemned confiscate confiscated seized taken over 

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