Definitions for usurps

usurps u·surp

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

Usurps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in usurps (prssuu).

Definitions for usurps

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 usurps

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 usurps

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Word Value for usurps
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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