takeover, appropriation, confiscation, impoundment; arrogation, accroachment, assumption, usurping.
2. encroachment, infringement, inroads, trespass; dispossession, deposition, dislodgment, displacement, removal.
3. misappropriation, theft, thievery, stealing, robbery; plagiarism, piracy, pirating. utensil, n. instrument, tool, implement, device, apparatus, contrivance; knife, fork, spoon, chopstick; container, vessel, receptacle, holder, dish. utilitarian, adj. practical, pragmatic, effectual, effective, efficacious, expedient; functional, handy, good, usable, utilizable; operable, convertible, adaptable; workable, made for, to the purpose, suitable. utility, n. 1. usefulness, usability, use, applicability, serviceability, convertibility, adaptability; advantageousness, helpfulness, aidfulness, profitability; advantage, benefit, profit, value, worth, merit; service, good, efficacy, effectiveness, beneficialness, favorableness; convenience, point, avail; practicality, practicability, functionalism, utilitarianism.
-adj. 2. reserve, backup, dummy, substitute, alternate; spare, temporary, secondary, provisional, makeshift.
3. handy, Inf. all-around, multipurpose, utilitarian, functional; adaptable, serviceable, commodious. utilize, v. exercise, practice, employ, put to use, make use of; avail oneself of, have recourse to, resort to. See use (defs. 1, 2). utmost, adj. 1. maximum, maximal, greatest, most, uttermost; supreme, paramount, superlative; highest, uppermost, upper, topmost, top, tiptop; sum-mital, apical, apogeal, apogean; meridian, meridional, climactic, climactical, crowning, culminating, culminant.
2. farthest, remotest, outermost, outlying, outer, extreme; endmost, ultimate, terminal, last, final, marginal, peripheral.
-n. 3. maximum, max, most, uttermost, extreme, the nth degree, Math, extremum; apex, vertex, apogee, acme, zenith, Latin, ne plus ultra; summit, pinnacle, peak, height, top, tip, tiptop.
4. best, finest, prime, U.S. SI. the most, U.S. SI. the greatest, SI. the tops; hardest, Inf. damnedest, Inf. darnedest.
5. extremity, farthest point, outer limit, horizon, the end of the earth; limit, ambit, bound, boundary, border, frontier; periphery, margin, edge, rim, brim, brow, lip, ridge, verge, brink; ultimate, end, finale, termination, terminal, terminus. utopia, n. paradise, Garden of Eden, Eden, heaven on earth, the best of all possible worlds; Shangri-la, El Dorado, Erewhon; castle in the air, air castle, castle in Spain. utopian, adj. 1. idealistic, perfect, ideal, Inf. dream, pie-in-the-sky; fantasy, imaginary, imagined, fanciful, fancied, chimerical, unreal, illusory, visionary, quixotic; airy, vaporous, unsubstantial, insubstantial, wild, idle; fictitious, made-up, make-believe, fairy-tale, mythical, fantastic; romantic, impractical, unpractical, unrealistic, infeasible, unfeasible, inoperable, unworkable; unattainable, unrealizable, un-fulfillable.
-n. 2. idealist, Don Quixote, dreamer, day-dreamer, visionary, fantast, romantic, romanticist. utter1 v. 1. say, speak, tell, pronounce, express; articulate, verbalize, voice, vocalize, enounce; give voice, give forth, let out, emit, raise; enunciate, Phonetics, phonate, put in words, formulate, present; whisper, breathe, sigh, mutter, murmur; exclaim, sing, chant, yell, scream, squeal, yelp, bark, growl, snap; vent, air, out with, break, ventilate.
