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Dictionary Scoop: Word Challenge (5/03/2025): Usurp


 

usurp

/ju?s?rp/
verb

1.?usurp:?take (a position of power or importance) unlawfully or by force
"Richard usurped the throne"

2.?usurp:?take the place of (someone in a position of power) unlawfully; supplant?
"the Hanoverian dynasty had usurped the Stuarts"

3.?usurp:?encroach or infringe upon (someone's rights)?
"the Church had usurped upon the domain of the state"



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