Usurp is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for USURP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to seize and hold without legal authority
• take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force
• take the place of (someone in a position of power) illegally; supplant
• seize (a position or power) without authority
• To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.
• To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.
• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one\'s right or possession
• encroach or infringe upon (someone's rights)

Words related to USURP

usurpative15 usurped10 usurpedly15 usurper9 usurpers10 usurping11 usurpings12 usurps8

Words that contain USURP

usurps8 usurped10 usurper9 usurpers10 usurping11 usurpedly15 usurpings12 usurpation12 usurpative15 usurpatory15 usurpature12 usurpingly16 usurpations13 usurpatures13

How to use USURP in a sentence

• If the law is against them, they manage to usurp full an even amount of privilege and authority, and keep along about in line with the other sex.
• We, the illegitimate companions, will no longer suffer the legitimate wives to usurp rights they no longer possess, and which they ought never to have had at all.
• The system which permits an honest and well-meaning man to do this will afford equal opportunity for selfish ambition to usurp power in its own interest.
• Jones and have no desire to usurp his island kingdom or seize his pearls.
• They usurp authority to which they are not entitled by law, and use it for private ends.
• There is danger that newspapers in America will too much supersede and usurp the place of books, and lead to a superficial knowledge of things.
• The word its life resigneth in the pen, Leather and wax usurp the mastery then.
• Restore to me that little spot, With grey hills compassed round, Where knotted grass neglected lies, And weeds usurp the ground.
• All honor due to him I gladly pay, But must deny the right he would usurp.
• He was made to realize the indignity to himself in letting two vulgar Italians usurp his authority.
• If you had loved him as I thought you did, you never would have allowed another to usurp his place.
• They had felt that the Roman pontiff, in former ages, under pretence of religion, was gradually making advances to usurp the whole civil power.
• Government was censured for allowing France to usurp and retain the occupation of Spain.
• He unquestionably meant that we had no right, in law or morals, to usurp the right of self-government which belonged to the Cubans, or to the Philippine people.
• His activity was directed to the preparation of a rising in which he was to usurp the power and call together a council.
• The time will come when the illusory image will usurp the place of the just idea it has seemed to represent.
• At the family table, in the home circle, the tendency is rather for their ideas and their affairs to usurp the conversation.
• Marriage is rewarded with some honourable distinction, which celibacy is forbidden to usurp.
• The President ought not to usurp the power of his appointment, which ought, after serious discussion by the Council, to be made by the Society at large.
• This extravagance should surely not be allowed to usurp the place of morality, but this is what is done, and greatness is not for them.
• Nor did he attempt, in the very slightest degree, to usurp the functions of his chaplains.
• In the confusion of all things it is said that a party in Rome urged Aistulf to usurp the empire.
• There is no fear that the religion of the Joss-House will ever usurp the religion of the Christian altar.
• The Khakhan of those last-named Tartars naturally would not allow the petty tribe of Turk to usurp his exclusive and supreme title.
• It had in fact been discovered that the sole thought of the brothers was to usurp the government of the island.
• He suffers not the woman to usurp authority over him.
• These continue along the sandy bed for some time, but afterwards the usual small Andropogons usurp their place.
• He resolved to usurp the throne and to cause the assassination of all the brothers from whom he could fear any opposition.
• By every device they sought to usurp to themselves the sole power of ministering to popular wants.

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