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usurp
/juˈsɝp/
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What does usurp mean?
verb
- 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.
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verb
- (obsolete) To make use of.
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/juˈsɝp/
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Like all cicada noises it did not usurp the sound world, but constituted itself an underlying basis, so to speak.
It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from the state and usurp the beggary he was never born to.
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Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.
For a lover to see his sweetheart wearing a muff, denotes that a worthier man will usurp his place in her affections.
These soubriquets quite usurp our baptismal appellations, and I have often been called 'Maori,' by people who did not actually know my real name.