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US
/ˈæɹoʊˌɡeɪt/
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VERB
- make undue claims to having
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seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
he usurped my rights
He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town
She seized control of the throne after her husband died -
demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter
Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident
How To Use arrogate In A Sentence
- At home in Harrogate, Leon's mother watched as news of the disaster broke, knowing of her son's plan to dive on Boxing Day.
- He soon came to exert considerable influence on surgical practice and hospital policy at Harrogate.
- As she drove along the narrow, winding country lanes she and an oncoming coach, carrying teenagers to school in Harrogate, slowed so both vehicles could safely pass.
- Painter cleared of bar assault charge A SELF-employed painter and decorator was yesterday cleared of assaulting the manager of a Harrogate bar.
- Stillington made major inroads into Harrogate's batting as they dismissed three home batsmen for ducks.
- Painter cleared of bar assault charge A SELF-employed painter and decorator was yesterday cleared of assaulting the manager of a Harrogate bar.
- York probably regretted batting first on a grassy track as Harrogate's quickies, Dave Pennett and Khalid Hussain, made swift inroads so that the visitors were reduced to 59-7 after 27 overs.
- Miss Wood, of Hereford, said the works were unlisted in a 1983 audit of Harrogate's art collection.
- There are no plans to change the single sex status of Harrogate Ladies' College, which was established in 1893 and now takes girls aged 10 to 18 as day pupils or boarders.
- The officers of the amphitheatre were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or _velaria_) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6