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hijack

verb as in seize control

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“I was living in a body hijacked by the medication,” says Danielle, who at 29 still is struggling to wean herself off an antidepressant.

‘I was living in a body hijacked by the medication.’

“I was living in a body hijacked by the medication,” said Gansky, 29, who is still struggling to wean herself off an antidepressant.

His analysis of American imperatives in the Middle East was plausible—up to the moment when hijacked passenger jets hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The penalty for hijacking a plane is a minimum of 20 years in federal prison.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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