If you take over your neighbor's backyard and claim his in ground swimming pool as your own, you might seize control of, or usurp his yard, but he'll probably call the cops on you.
To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right;
Verb
seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one''s right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
Verb
take the place of; "gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terorist act broke"
v. t.
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.
v. i.
To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or
the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act
as, a usurper.
Usurp
Alack, thou dost usurp authority.
Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government, would of course be perfectly justifiable.
Usurp
The parish churches on which the Presbyterians and fanatics had usurped.
And now the Spirits of the Mind Are busy with poor Peter Bell; Upon the rights of visual sense Usurping, with a prevalence More terrible than magic spell.
To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right;
To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.
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