usurp
/juˈsɝp/ verb C2- To seize and hold or use (powers, an office, a coat of arms, a right or copyright, etc) from another, without right (usually by illegitimate means).
- To take the place of someone or something else; to supplant.
He/she/it usurps · Past usurped · Past participle usurped · -ing form usurping
Verb forms
- Base form
- usurp
- He/she/it
- usurps
- Past
- usurped
- Past participle
- usurped
- -ing form
- usurping
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Come, come, do not strip the latter of his just rights to bestow them on the Corsican, who, to my mind, has usurped quite enough.”
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