HIJACK Synonyms

• suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc

• meant or adapted for an occasion or use

• give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause

• take possession of by force, as after an invasion

• commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling

• turn aside; turn away from

• send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one

• occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion

• withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions

• take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

• take hold of; grab

• take or capture by force

• take possession of by force, as after an invasion

• take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

• hook by a pull on the line

• affect

• capture the attention or imagination of

• subject an aircraft to air piracy

• an advantageous purchase

• a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

• take without the owner's consent

• move stealthily

• steal a base

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit

• a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force

• a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation

• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

• free someone temporarily from his or her obligations

• take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person

• take over ownership of; of corporations and companies

• do over

• take up and practice as one's own

• take up, as of debts or payments

• seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination

• take arbitrarily or by force

• someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

• someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

• a ship that is manned by pirates

• copy illegally; of published material

• take arbitrarily or by force