English > usurp: 2 senses > verb 1, possession| Meaning | seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Example | "he usurped my rights" |
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| Synonyms | assume, seize, take over, arrogate |
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| Narrower | annex | Take (territory) as if by conquest |
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| appropriate, capture, seize, conquer | Take possession of by force, as after an invasion |
| hijack | seize control of |
| preoccupy | Occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance |
| raid | take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock |
| Broader | take | Take by force |
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| Spanish | anexar, apoderar, capturar, confiscar, embargar, incautar, usurpar |
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| Catalan | apoderar, capturar, confiscar, embargar, incautar, usurpar |
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| Nouns | usurpation | wrongfully seizing / seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority) |
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| usurper | one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another |
