appropriate
uh-PROH-pree-aytverbMeaning to take something for one’s own use, often without permission
Memory hook ap-PROPRI-ate: make it your PROPERty. Pip plops down on Lila’s comfy beanbag, sticks a sign on it that says “PIP’S PROPERTY” and will not budge; he has appropriated it.
My little brother appropriated my best pillow and refused to give it back.
In context Rather than come up with her own idea, Tia appropriated her friend’s design for the poster contest and entered it under her own name.
Similar seize, take, steal, grab
Opposite return, surrender, give
From Late Latin appropriare, “to make one’s own”: ad- (to) + proprius (one’s own).