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: October 27, 2024
\yoo-SERP\ verb
What It Means
To usurp something (such as power) is to take and keep it by force and without the right to do so. Usurp can also mean "to take the place of by or as if by force."
// Some people have accused city council members of trying to usurp the mayor’s power.
// We cannot allow lies to usurp the truth.
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