Crossword clues for unseat
unseat
- Throw aunties out? Not I!
- Give the boot
- Kick out of office
- Toss, as a rider
- Topple from the throne
- Take to the floor?
- Oust, in a way
- Defeat, as the incumbent
- Thwart the re-election bid of
- Throw from the saddle
- Throw (as a 15?)
- Replace, as the incumbent
- Oust, as from office
- Oust via election
- Move out of Washington?
- Buck from the saddle
- Dethrone, e.g
- Boot from office
- Vote out of office
- Oust from office
- Beat in November, perhaps
- Prevent from being reelected
- Defeat, as an incumbent
- Turn out
- Disposition?
- Oust a senator
- Remove from office
- Defeat an incumbent
- Beat the incumbent
- Dislodge from office
- Not firm catching a throw
- Throw Austen out
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unseat \Un*seat"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + seat.]
To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
--Cowper.Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat. 2 Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election.
WordNet
v. remove from political office; "The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat"
dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse
Usage examples of "unseat".
George Powers, and, by some arrangement, without any warning, the organist and quartette were unseated by the clique he had formed of his friends.
He wound both reins in his left hand and promised himself that if he should be unseated, he would lie in the snow and hold them until Rannach came back.
But, like his companions, having quickly adopted the habits of the country, he had become a skillful and experienced horseman, and the mustang, after a few springless jumps, which failed to unseat him, submitted to his rider.
Then the ball lost its last hold, fell squashily and was sent farther on by a kick from his own mount which nearly unseated him.
And it is my understanding that before the High King Brian and his sire before him invaded Munster and gave everyone a common foe, the various subfamilies of Fitz Geralds fought like alley curs amongst themselves, while the non-Norman folk sniped at them almost without cease and rose up in full arms against them whenever it appeared that they might have even a ghost of a slim chance to unseat them.
And it is my understanding that before the High King Brian and his sire before him invaded Munster and gave everyone a common foe, the various subfamilies of FitzGeralds fought like alley curs amongst themselves, while the non-Norman folk sniped at them almost without cease and rose up in full arms against them whenever it appeared that they might have even a ghost of a slim chance to unseat them.
Camiron surged forward, almost unseating the Macedonian, but then they were away.
Dain was nearly unseated, but Lord Odfrey leaned forward with the horse, using its impetus as he swung his sword.
And, in the end, a leap, a jarring landing, and a spring to the side unseated the rider.
Only his considerable riding skills prevented Gwaltney from being unseated and trampled by the tons of horseflesh to their rear.
My maid planned to hide in the hills until Edward was unseated from power or fled the country.
Tehena kicked its barrel belly viciously and almost unseated herself, but the dnu bucked out of the drift.
Ki half unseated before he caught his balance and streaked after Talon, with Wakje and Harare in their wake.
Thereafter he held his peace, protesting not at all when it was generally agreed that the collapse of certain squalid brick houses in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, and the consequent death of many brave officers, had unseated his nervous equilibrium.
It was in these circumstances, driven by a frenzy which for a time unseated her judgment, that she committed the crime.