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To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means. / To use and assume the coat of arms of another person. / To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.

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usurp

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Source Word

usurp

IPA(Pronunciation)

/juˈsɝp/

Verb

obsolete

To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means. / To use and assume the coat of arms of another person. / To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.

Japanese Meaning

不正な手段により他者の権力を奪取する / 他人の紋章などの権威を無断で使用・引き継ぐ / 本来誰かに属する正当な地位や役割を奪い取る

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The ambitious general plotted to usurp the throne while the king was distracted.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

野心的な将軍は、王が気を取られている間に王位を簒奪しようと企てた。

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Sense（1）

To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.

[S]o he dies,

But soon revives, Death over him no power

Shall long usurp […]

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Sense（2）

To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.

Sense（3）

To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.

But if now / You ſhould (as cruell fathers do) proclame / Your right, and Tyrant like uſurp the glory / Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd / From ſucceſſary, but purchas'd with my bloud, / Then I muſt ſtand firſt Champion for my ſelfe, / Againſt all interpoſers.

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