USURPER

usurper, supplanter

(noun) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

usurper (plural usurpers)

One who usurps.

Anagrams

• pursuer

Source: Wiktionary


U*surp"er, n.

Definition: 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. A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SPONGE

(noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used


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