(v) usurp, See Also: contend, seize, grab, vie, strive, Syn. แก่งแย่ง, ช่วงชิง, แย่งชิง, Example:ภาพยนต์เรื่องนี้สร้างจากเรื่องจริงในประวัติศาสตร์การต่อสู้ชิงอำนาจในเม็กซิโก

Thai-English-French: Volubilis Dictionary 1.0 Volubilis Dictionary (TH-EN-FR)

ชิง

[ching] (v) EN: snatch ; seize ; wrest ; grab ; usurp ; capture FR: arracher ; ravir ; saisir ; s'emparer de

ช่วงชิง

[chūangching] (v) EN: capture ; snatch ; grab ; win ; usurp FR: saisir ; s'emparer de ; usurper

การบุกรุก

[kān bukruk] (n) EN: encroachment ; incursion ; intrusion ; aggression ; trespass FR: empiétement [ m ] ; usurpation de terres [ f ] ; intrusion [ f ] ; incursion [ f ]

รวบอำนาจ

[rūap amnāt] (v, exp) EN: arrogate power to oneself ; usurp power FR: s'approprier le pouvoir

แย่งชิง

[yaēngching] (v) EN: snatch ; grab ; scramble for ; seize ; compete ; vie ; wrest ; catch FR: ravir ; usurper

WordNet (3.0) WordNet (3.0)

usurp

(v) take the place of, Example:gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke

usurpation

(n) wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority), Example:a succession of generals who ruled by usurpation

usurper

(n) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another, Syn. supplanter

assume

(v) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession, Syn. arrogate, seize, take over, usurp, Example:He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town; he usurped my rights; She seized control of the throne after her husband died

trespass

(n) entry to another's property without right or permission, Syn. usurpation, encroachment, intrusion, violation

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Usurp

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Usurped p. pr. & vb. n. Usurping. ] [ L. usurpare, usurpatum, to make use of, enjoy, get possession of, usurp; the first part of usurpare is akin to usus use (see Use, n.): cf. F. usurper. ] To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government, would of course be perfectly justifiable. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Usurp is applied to seizure and use of office, functions, powers, rights, etc.; it is not applied to common dispossession of private property. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To arrogate; assume; appropriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Usurp

v. i. To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The parish churches on which the Presbyterians and fanatics had usurped. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

And now the Spirits of the Mind
Are busy with poor Peter Bell;
Upon the rights of visual sense
Usurping, with a prevalence
More terrible than magic spell. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Usurpant

a. [ L. usurpans, p. pr. ] Usurping; encroaching. [ Obs. ] Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Usurpation

n. [ L. usurpatio &unr_; making use, usurpation: cf. F. usurpation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power. [ 1913 Webster ]

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He contrived their destruction, with the usurpation of the regal dignity upon him. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

A law [ of a State ] which is a usurpation upon the general government. O. Ellsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, formerly denoted the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by a stranger presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who us thereupon admitted and instituted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Use; usage; custom. [ Obs. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Usurpatory

a. [ L. usurpatorius. ] Marked by usurpation; usurping. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Usurpature

n. Usurpation. [ R. ] “Beneath man's usurpature.” R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Usurper

n. One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. [ 1913 Webster ]

A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Usurpingly

adv. In a usurping manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chinese-English: CC-CEDICT Dictionary CC-CEDICT CN-EN Dictionary

霸

[霸, bà] hegemon; tyrant; lord; feudal chief; to rule by force; to usurp; (in modern advertising) master #5798

牟

[牟, móu] barley; to moo; usurp #13941

擅

[擅, shàn] without authority; to usurp; to arrogate to oneself; to monopolize; expert in; to be good at #16939

貂蝉

[貂蝉 / 貂蟬, Diāo Chán] Diaochan (-192), one of the Four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布, See Also: 四大美女, 董卓, 呂布, 吕布 #19750

董卓

[董卓, Dǒng Zhuó] Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布, See Also: 呂布, 吕布 #23685

僭

[僭, jiàn] usurp #40606

篡夺

[篡夺 / 篡奪, cuàn duó] to usurp; to seize #41250

王莽

[王莽, Wáng Mǎng] Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han #41550

篡

[篡, cuàn] to seize; to usurp #48097

张志新

[张志新 / 張志新, Zhāng Zhì xīn] Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, murdered in 1975 after opposing the counter-revolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Ga #68341

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