arrogate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter
Types & categories
- request hypernym
- pretend hyponym
- requisition hyponym
- arrogate hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
make undue claims to having
Types & categories
- arrogate hypernym
Related & opposite
- arrogator derivation
Sense 3 verb
seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- laying claim derivation
- usurpation derivation
- confiscation derivation
- coup derivation
- arrogator derivation
- usurper derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | forfeit |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | claim |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | arrogator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | claimant |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | claim |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | request |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pretend |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | requisition |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | arrogate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | arrogator |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | arrogate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | laying claim |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | usurpation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | confiscation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | coup |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | arrogator |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | usurper |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | take |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | annex |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | conquer |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | preoccupy |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hijack |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | raid |