[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to take possession of, especially for public use by the right of eminent domain, thus divesting the title of the private owner:The government expropriated the land for a recreation area.", "to dispossess (a person) of ownership:The revolutionary government expropriated the landowners from their estates.", "to take (something) from another's possession for one's own use:He expropriated my ideas for his own article."]}]