to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightthe mayor usurped the school board's authority when he fired the principal
the mayor usurped the school board's authority when he fired the principal
appropriate, arrogate, commandeer, convert, expropriate, pirate, preempt, press, seize, take over
annex, attach, claim, confiscate, impound, repossess, sequesterassume, collar, grab, grasp, snatch, steal, wrench, wrestdespoil, loot, pillageencroach, infringe, invade, occupy, preoccupy, trespassembezzle, misapply, misappropriate, misuse, peculate
in the 14th century
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