usurp
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
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Sense 2 verb
take the place of
gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke
Types & categories
- supplant hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | laying claim |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | usurpation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confiscation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | coup |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | arrogator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | usurper |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | take |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | annex |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | conquer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | preoccupy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hijack |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | raid |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | supplant |