Usurping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for USURPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force
• take the place of (someone in a position of power) illegally; supplant
• encroach or infringe upon (someone's rights)
NOUN:
• the act of usurping
ADJECTIVE:
• taking possession unjustly
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to seize and hold without legal authority

Words related to USURPING

usurp7 usurped10 usurpingly16 usurps8

Words that contain USURPING

usurpings12 usurpingly16

How to use USURPING in a sentence

• Bad words, bad wit! O, where dwells faith or truth? Ill usury my favours reap from thee, Usurping Sol, the hate of heaven and earth.
• It is a blemish to the majesty And high estate of mighty emperors, That such a base usurping vagabond Should brave a king, or wear a princely crown.
• It was impossible for me to proceed further than this on my own authority without usurping the war-making power, which under the Constitution belongs exclusively to Congress.
• The uncle died, and the usurping vizier made himself master of this kingdom also.
• Now they saw them, as the advisers of the young king, actually usurping the position which was theirs by right of birth.
• Domingo, where he was ignominiously hanged by Ovando, for the crime of defending his territory and his native soil against usurping strangers.
• The War for Independence in the eighteenth century was the defeat of usurping power no less in England than here.
• Now on thy stream the noonbeams look, Usurping, as thou downward driftest, Its crystal from the clearest brook, Its rushing current from the swiftest.
• So rampant was the usurping spirit of churchmen that even the violence of the Diocletian persecution was not sufficient to check them in their career of ambition.
• So he knew Bella, and he knew I was not Bella, although he had not grasped the fact that I was usurping her place.
• Not to dally with usurping emotions, I turned my eyes aside.
• They put him on trial for usurping the power of life and death.
• She knew it was not David that spoke, but a usurping spirit born of evil days.
• But in Painting the image is usurping and exclusive.
• But in accepting it I should be usurping an honour that rightly belongs elsewhere.
• He feared the spirit of the nation was so broken that it would submit to the establishment of the usurping family.
• If she does not return, I am not your brother, but an intruder, usurping the share of affection and comfort that ought to fall to her.
• The Liberian people naturally objected to the usurping of all these prerogatives, but Cadell refused to resign and presented a large bill for his services.
• The House of Commons was usurping another form of that very dispensing power, for pretending to which the last of the Stuart sovereigns had lost his crown.
• One after another these usurping dynasties were again ejected in favour either of a restored oligarchy or of a democracy.
• No debt, State or Confederate, created by or under the sanction of the usurping power shall be recognized or paid by the State.
• Upon the basis of our just rights, the British Government, if not the entire nation, is the usurping enemy of the Boer nation.

Similar words containing USURP without suffix ing

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