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usurp
[ yoo-surp, -zurp ]
verb (used with object)
- to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right:
The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
- to use without authority or right; employ wrongfully:
The magazine usurped copyrighted material.
verb (used without object)
- to commit forcible or illegal seizure of an office, power, etc.; encroach.
usurp
/ juːˈzɜːp /
verb
- to seize, take over, or appropriate (land, a throne, etc) without authority
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Derived Forms
- ˌusurˈpation, noun
- uˈsurper, noun
- uˈsurpative, adjective
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Other Words From
- u·surp·er noun
- u·surp·ing·ly adverb
- non·u·surp·ing adjective
- non·u·surp·ing·ly adverb
- self-u·surp verb (used without object)
- un·u·surp·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of usurp1
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Example Sentences
The Constitutional Court is “absolutely part of the old guard trying to usurp power,” he tells The Daily Beast.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Makes you wonder why conservatives care so much who sits on the Supreme Court—since they seem determined to usurp its job.
“It would be very difficult for her to come out and usurp power at this point,” he said.
Ignorance would take the place of learning, and slavery would usurp the domain of liberty.
Man will no longer try to usurp the place of God, and persecute his fellow mortal on religious grounds.
"I am going to usurp your assumed right to start this little private conversation, Akar Hekalu," he told him.
These events, although in themselves important and interesting, would usurp a disproportionate place in this history.
The architect employed in this famous structure, fell upon the following contrivance to usurp the whole glory to himself.
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