usurper / yuˈsɜr pər, -ˈzɜr‐ /

⚽高中词汇僭主篡夺者篡改者篡位者

usurper 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. someone who seizes an office or position of power by force or without legal right, or who is perceived to have done so: The usurper Vitigis gathered his army together and laid siege to Rome.

usurper 近义词

usurper

等同于 strongman

usurper

等同于 dictator

更多usurper例句

  1. This usurper showed a better understanding of why ladybirds were different colors and jumped from 5th to 1st position during February.
  2. Some weeks ago, when the United States was contending with its own insurrection, I discussed the nature of coups d’etat and how, last century, usurpers tended to seize TV stations before storming presidential palaces.
  3. The nimblest usurpers snatch power before anyone knows what has happened.
  4. Branded a usurper, Bruce had been excommunicated by the Vatican.
  5. Or because he supported the deposed King Richard II rather than the usurper Henry Bolingbroke?
  6. This emboldened him to add “the usurper that is in the White House … B. Hussein Obama” to the list said in his church on Sundays.
  7. He has been offering “imprecatory prayers” against “the usurper that is in the White House…B. Hussein Obama.”
  8. To sum the whole matter, the Britisher is an odious usurper “who has always got one eye open.”
  9. If reason is to rule, the usurper, religion, must be ejected; hence atheism was fundamental to his entire system.
  10. And when they were through, the King (for all he was a rank usurper) spoke them fair, and gave each man three guineas in his hand.
  11. The circumstances were propitious to the designs of a usurper.
  12. This scandalous outrage was soon reported at Rome, and the sacrilegious usurper was excommunicated and banished.