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say it: AR-oh-gayt
arrogate is a verb meaning "demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
make undue claims to having
seize 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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for arrogate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.