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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dethrone
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Democrats picked an unlikely candidate to try to dethrone the Republican senator.
▪ Douglas dethroned Tyson in a fight that rocked the boxing world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As plato realized, it is dangerous because its effect is to dethrone the Idea from its position of Truth.
▪ The media regarded Gorbachev as the odds-on favorite to dethrone the old champ.
▪ The reality principle does not dethrone the pleasure principle, but rather safeguards it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dethrone

dethrone \de*throne"\ (d[-e]*thr[=o]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dethroned (d[-e]*thr[=o]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Dethroning.] [Pref. de- + throne: cf. F. d['e]tr[^o]ner; pref. d['e]- (L. dis-) + tr[^o]ne throne. See Throne.] To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. ``The Protector was dethroned.''
--Hume.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dethrone

c.1600; see de- (privative) + throne. Related: Dethroned; dethroning.

Wiktionary
dethrone

vb. 1 To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy. 2 To remove any governing authority from power.

WordNet
dethrone

v. remove a monarch from the throne; "If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned" [ant: enthrone]

Usage examples of "dethrone".

When Pompey commanded in the East, he rewarded his soldiers and allies, dethroned princes, divided kingdoms, founded colonies, and distributed the treasures of Mithridates.

Japanese dethrone last Taiping emperor and annex all of China not overrun by Draka.

I was greatly struck with her, but just then Venus herself could not have dethroned Clementine from her place in my affections.

Paris very well, and wondered where lay that gloomy Conciergerie, where a dethroned queen was living her last days, in an agonised memory of the past.

He is no longer interested in his novel, and even if he were angry any more – which he isn't – he would not be able to vent his spleen in the local paper, because he has been displaced, dethroned, out-raged: there is a new, and even angrier, Angriest Man in Holloway now – which is as it should be, I suppose.

When Pompey commanded in the East, he rewarded his soldiers and allies, dethroned princes, divided kingdoms, founded colonies, and distributed the treasures of Mithridates.

After three years' exile, he received the pleasing intelligence that his injury was avenged by a second revolution, and that Leontius in his turn had been dethroned and mutilated by the rebel Apsimar, who assumed the more respectable name of Tiberius.

Never before has anyone seen or heard of six dethroned monarchs supping together at an inn.

Cunégonde and the old woman are now in the house of the prince I told you of, and I myself am slave to the dethroned Sultan.

Or he may have paled at the suggestive hint of a resemblance between himself and the Quetzalcoatl dethroned by shame at his own sin.

Though Cacama, as instructed by his uncle, made a warm speech of welcome to the newcomers, I daresay he must have felt uneasy, being glared at by his dethroned half brother Black Flower, who at that moment stood before him with a powerful force of disaffected Acolhua warriors at his command.

I am going to Rome to visit the King my father, who was dethroned like myself and my grandfather.

The young nephew of his wife Tuaa, the Regent Ani, who was a few years younger than Rameses, he caused to be brought up in the House of Seti, and treated him like his own son, while the other members of the dethroned royal family were robbed of their possessions or removed altogether.

When, in 1848, Louis Philippe was dethroned by the Parisian mob, and fled the kingdom, there was in France no legitimate government, for all commissions ran in the king's name.

The first Napoleon governed by a legal title, but he was never legally dethroned, and the government of the Bourbons, whether of the elder branch or the younger, was never a legal government, for the Bourbons had lost their original rights by the election of the first Napoleon, and never afterwards had the national will in their favor.