Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Expropriate \Ex*pro"pri*ate\, v. t. [L. ex out, from + proprius
   one's own: cf. F. 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.

Source : WordNet®

expropriate
     v : deprive of possessions; "The Communist government
         expropriated the landowners"