Arrogate

Definition: Arrogate

Arrogate

Verb

1. Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to: "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident".

2. Make undue claims to having.

3. Take control of; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died".

Date "arrogate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Note: Arrogate \Ar"ro*gate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Arrogated; present participle verb or noun Arrogating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Arrogate

Synonyms: ascribe (v), assign (v), assume (v), claim (v), lay claim (v), seize (v), take over (v), usurp (v). (additional references)

Antonym: forfeit (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dueness	Demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.
Insolence	Verb: be insolent; Adjective: bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear; (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.
Severity	Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.
Undueness	Infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself; give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp, violate, do violence to.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Arrogate

English words defined with "arrogate": Arrogating. (references)

Specialty definitions using "arrogate": Science Persecuted. (references)

Etymologies containing "arrogate": Adrogate, Adrogation, Arrogant. (references)

"Arrogate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Arrogate" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	60%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)	30%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Expressions using "arrogate": arrogate to ♦ arrogate to oneself. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "arrogate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		atribuoj vetes, vesh (accredit, apparel, array, ascribe, attire, attribute, back, cannon, clothe, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack), përvetësoj padrejtësisht, ngjit (agglutinate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), kërkoj (aim, apply, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want). (various references)

Arabic		‏إنتحل (crib, plagiarize), ‏دعا بغير الحق. (various references)

Bulgarian		претендирам дръзко за, приписвам неоснователно. (various references)

Czech		připisovat (set down). (various references)

Farsi		غصب کردن (Usurp, Wring), ادعای بیجاکردن , بخودبستن (Assume, Pretend, Sham, Simulate). (various references)

French		s'arroger, revendiquer � tort. (various references)

German		fordern (ask, call for, challenge, claim, demand, exact, exaction, extend, make demands, postulate, press, require, stretch, support, to arrogate, to ask (for), to demand, to require). (various references)

Greek		διεκδικώ άδικωσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לתבוע שלא כ�"ין. (various references)

Hungarian		tulajdonít valakinek valamit, követel (call for, claim, demand, exact, necessitate, postulate, presume, to arrogate, to claim, to command, to demand, to desire, to exact, to necessitate, to press for, to require, to requisition). (various references)

Indonesian		merebut (compete for and win something, poach, seize, usurp, wrest). (various references)

Italian		attribuire (ascribe, assign, attach, attribute, award, credit, grant, impute, refer), arrogarsi (assertiveness, assume). (various references)

Manx		goaill rour er, cur rour er (overburden, overstock). (various references)

Pig Latin		arrogateay

Portuguese		atribuir injustamente, arrogar-se (claim), apropriar-se (appropriate). (various references)

Romanian		aroga (arogant, haughty), a-şi atribui (assume). (various references)

Russian		присваивать (appropriate, assign, assign to, assume, embezzle, peculate, poach). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prisvojiti (appropriate, assume, catch hold of, convert, preempt, usurp). (various references)

Spanish		apropiarse (borrow, grab). (various references)

Swedish		tillvita (fasten on, impute). (various references)

Thai		ถือสิทธิ์ (assert). (various references)

Turkish		atfetmek (accredit, ascribe, attribute, direct, impute, inscribe, refer, set down), üzerine atmak (charge, fasten on, father, lay smth. at one's door). (various references)

Ukrainian		зарозуміло вимагати, привласнювати (appropriate, cabbage, embezzle, grab, peculate, poach, pocket, pouch, snoop, take, trouser), приписувати (accredit, allege, appoint, ascribe, assign, attach, attribute, credit, credit with, enjoin, foist, ordain, prescribe, refer). (various references)

Welsh		trawshawlio, hawlio (claim, demand). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vindico (vindicatum). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "arrogate": arrogated, arrogates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Arrogate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arbogast, arbogate, arbrogate, Arcopata, argate, argonath, Arogast, arougeaye, Arriagada, arrogare, arrograte, Arronale, Arrorat, Arroyabe, irrorata, rogate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "arrogate" (pronounced a"rōgā't)
3	-g ā' t	abrogate, castigate, congregate, corrugate, delegate, desegregate, floodgate, fumigate, instigate, interrogate, investigate, irrigate, litigate, mitigate, navigate, obligate, profligate, propagate, relegate, segregate, subjugate, tailgate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-o-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: aerator, garrote.
	-2 letters: agorae, aortae, errata, garote, garret, garter, grater, orgeat.
	-3 letters: agate, agora, aorta, argot, ergot, gator, grate, great, groat, oater, orate, rater, reata, retag, retro, roger, targe, tarre, terga, terra, togae.
	-4 letters: aero, agar, ager, area, ergo, gate, gear, geta, goat, goer, gore, grat, grot, ogre, orra, raga, rage, rare, rate, rato.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-o-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: arrogated, arrogates.
	+2 letters: variegator.
	+3 letters: arteriogram, exaggerator, variegators.
	+4 letters: arteriograms, cartographer, exaggerators, exaggeratory, galactorrhea, metrorrhagia.
	+5 letters: aortographies, arteriography, cartographers, cartographies, expurgatorial, galactorrheas, gubernatorial, metrorrhagias, narratologies, reaggregation.
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