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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

/juˈsɝp/

verb

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.

He tried to usurp the throne from his brother.

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意味（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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意味（2）

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

意味（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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