Definitions for usurp

usurp u·surp

Spelling: [yoo-surp, -zurp]
IPA: /yuˈsɜrp, -ˈzɜrp/

Usurp is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in usurp (prsuu).

Definitions for usurp

verb (used with object)

  1. to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right:
  2. to use without authority or right; employ wrongfully:

verb (used without object)

  1. to commit forcible or illegal seizure of an office, power, etc.; encroach.

Origin of usurp

1275-1325; Middle English Latin ūsūrpāre to take possession through use, equivalent to ūsū (ablative of ūsus use (noun)) + -rp-, reduced form of -rip-, combining form

Examples for usurp

Though you are made my son by this day's work, you shall not usurp judgment.

We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years.

Lastly, he bethought him of the man whose power he was bidden to usurp.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Makes you wonder why conservatives care so much who sits on the Supreme Court—since they seem determined to usurp its job.

“It would be very difficult for her to come out and usurp power at this point,” he said.

I have allowed you to usurp the rule, to reverse our natural positions.

The Constitutional Court is “absolutely part of the old guard trying to usurp power,” he tells The Daily Beast.

Who was to usurp my place at table, in my bed-room, and in my mother's heart?

You usurp the power that is mine, and you deliver me—me, your son—to the gallows.

Word Value for usurp
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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