usurp 的 2 个定义
- to seize and hold by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
- to use without authority or right; employ wrongfully: The magazine usurped copyrighted material.
- to commit forcible or illegal seizure of an office, power, etc.; encroach.
usurp 近义词
take over
更多usurp例句
- Howard has usurped the 2017-18 Missouri Tigers as the worst team by percentage of previous-season wins to land a five-star recruit.
- There’s no shortage of stories of brands losing control on Amazon, from counterfeit sellers usurping their sales, to Amazon launching competing products of its own.
- Others, such as streaming usurping linear TV’s position among audiences and advertisers, may not become apparent for at least another year.
- Instagram may have the upper hand at the moment as the more established platform, but as the platform establishing a more direct way for creators to make money, TikTok has an opportunity to usurp Instagram’s position.
- Less than a month later, Brett Mastrangelo attempted to usurp McConaughy’s record but had to call it quits two days in because of a leg injury.
- The Constitutional Court is “absolutely part of the old guard trying to usurp power,” he tells The Daily Beast.
- 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.
- Ignorance would take the place of learning, and slavery would usurp the domain of liberty.
- Man will no longer try to usurp the place of God, and persecute his fellow mortal on religious grounds.
- "I am going to usurp your assumed right to start this little private conversation, Akar Hekalu," he told him.
- These events, although in themselves important and interesting, would usurp a disproportionate place in this history.
- The architect employed in this famous structure, fell upon the following contrivance to usurp the whole glory to himself.