Associations to the word «Commandeer»

Wiktionary

COMMANDEER, verb. To seize for military use.
COMMANDEER, verb. To force into military service.
COMMANDEER, verb. To take arbitrarily or by force.

Dictionary definition

COMMANDEER, verb. Take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne