Usurp vs Invade - What's the difference?
usurp | invade |
To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.
(obsolete) To make use of.
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To move into.
* Spenser
To enter by force in order to conquer.
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To infest or overrun.
To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
As verbs the difference between usurp and invade
is that usurp is to seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means while invade is to move into.usurp
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(invad)- Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.
- Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the grisly shade.
- Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
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- The picnic was invaded by ants.
- The king invaded the rights of the people.
