Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogateseize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession“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” (v)usurptake the place of“gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke”