hijack
Example Sentences
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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.
This hijacking took place further south in an area that is not typically attacked by pirates.
From Seattle Times
The interior minister accused what he called radical leftist groups of hijacking the demonstrations to challenge the French state.
From New York Times
He was wounded in a raid on a Belgian airliner hijacked by Palestinian militants which landed in Israel in 1972, and fought in the 1973 Middle East war.
From BBC
And the technology has security benefits: If your phone is stolen, thieves can’t remove an eSIM to hijack your phone number and commit identity theft, as they could with a physical SIM card.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
