usurp

To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force or without legal authority.

To take over or occupy without right.

To take the place of (another) without legal authority; supplant.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

To seize and hold possession of, as of some important or dignified place, office, power, or property, by force or without right; seize, appropriate, or assume illegally or wrongfully: as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power.

To assume, in a wider sense; put on; sometimes, to counterfeit.

To be or act as a usurper; hence, to commit illegal seizure; encroach: with on or upon.

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

To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right

To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.