usurp
verb (used with object)
to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right.
have been usurping
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present perfect progressiveof usurp.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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For the four years you have been usurping my rights, you have had neither my confidence nor sympathy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The time will come when there will be a universal surrender of that authority which we have been usurping all these centuries.
From Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The Meccans have been usurping the Black Stone, all these centuries, and these Jannati Shahr people have submitted because any conflict would have betrayed their existence to the world.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
