intransitive verb. To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force or without legal authority.

intransitive verb. To take over or occupy without right.

intransitive verb. To take the place of (another) without legal authority; supplant.

intransitive verb. To seize another's place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

To seize and hold possession of, as of some important or dignified place, office, power, or property, by force or without right; seize, appropriate, or assume illegally or wrongfully: as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power.

To assume, in a wider sense; put on; sometimes, to counterfeit.

To be or act as a usurper; hence, to commit illegal seizure; encroach: with on or upon.

intransitive verb. To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.

transitive verb. To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right

verb. To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.

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

verb. To make use of.

verb. take the place of

verb. seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession