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usurpation
noun
(u-sur-pa-tion)
entry to another's property without right or permission
Synonyms:
encroachment
,
intrusion
,
trespass
,
violation
,
usurpation
noun
(u-sur-pa-tion)
wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority)
Examples:
A succession of generals who ruled by usurpation.
Words Related to
usurpation
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encroachment
,
misuse
,
pillage
,
plunder
,
expropriation
,
plundering
,
confiscation
,
pillaging
,
misappropriation
,
looting
,
seizure
,
appropriation
,
theft
,
guise
,
fraud
,
pretence
,
counterfeit
,
arrogation
,
subjugation
,
despotism
,
dispossession
,
abdication
,
disobedience
,
rapine
,
exaction
,
subjection
,
oppression
,
illegality
,
abrogation
,
arbitrariness
,
aggrandizement
,
malfeasant
,
centralization
,
oligarchy
,
enslavement
,
caesarism
,
abridgment
,
usurpers
,
brigandage
,
denationalization
,
abridgement
,
improvidence
,
legitimation
,
impositions
,
jobbery
,
despoliation
,
overreaching
,
imperial
,
monarchism
,
emasculation
,
marcosian
,
profanation
,
casuistry
,
intermeddling
,
perversion
,
bolshevism
,
prerogatives
,
overlordship
,
monopolisation
,
subservience
,
knavery
,
servility
,
peculation
,
depredations
,
vassalage
,
affronts
,
enfeeblement
,
jacobinism
,
pauperization
,
aggressions
,
belligerency
,
negation
,
answerability
,
barbarisms
,
diminution
,
militarization
,
extraterritoriality
,
reassertion
,
federalization
,
inhumanities
,
perfidy
,
transmogrification
,
meddlesomeness
,
highhandedness
,
impiety
,
rascality
,
circumscription
,
bonapartist
,
dominion
,
sovereignties
,
immorality
,
intrusions
,
abnegation
,
corruptness
,
desecration
,
absolutism
,
acquiescence
,
despoiling
,
nullification
,
insurrection
,
usurpation
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