Dethrone

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  • transitive verb. To remove from the throne; depose.
  • transitive verb. To remove from a prominent or powerful position.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To remove or drive from a throne; depose; divest of royal authority and dignity.
  • To divest of rule, or of supreme power or authority.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.
  • verb. To remove any governing authority from power.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. remove a monarch from the throne
    • Word Usage
    "The FTC's new labels dethrone the watt as the primary measure of a bulb's effectiveness and replace it with the lumen as a measure of light output."
    cross-reference
    abdicate  coup d'etat  
    Form
    dethroned  dethroning  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disinvest  divest  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastogne  Bayonne  Capone  Cohn  Cologne  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    break  bust  cashier  deconsecrate  defrock  
    verb-form
    dethroned  dethrones  dethroning  
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