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usurp

English

  1. 🔊 take the place of
    “gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke”
  2. 🔊 seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
    “He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 usurpar to usurp

Similar words

assume seize take over arrogate accroach adopt advance upon appropriate arrogate assume assume command break bounds colonize commandeer conquer cut out displace encroach enslave go too far hog indent infringe intrude