usurp

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /juːˈzɜːp/    美 /juˈsɝp/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To seize and hold or use (powers, an office, a coat of arms, a right or copyright, etc) from another, without right (usually by illegitimate means).
    — [S]o he dies, But soon revives, Death over him no power Shall long usurp […]
  2. To take the place the place of someone or something else; to supplant.
    — 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.
  3. To make use of. obsolete
    — "[…] especially considering that even Matter it self, in which they tumble and wallow, which they feel with their hands and usurp with all their Senses […]"

词形变化

usurps present,singular,third-person usurping participle,present usurped participle,past usurped past

词汇关系

衍生词
nonusurping reusurp unusurping usurpable usurpation usurper usurpingly usurpious usurpment
相关词
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词源

From Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper, from Latin ūsūrpō.
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