Dethrone

Quick meaning: Dethrone is a verb meaning To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.

Meaning

To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.

More Meanings

1. To remove any governing authority from power.
2. To remove from any position of high status or power.
3. (figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.

Example Sentences

“[…] I’m a dethroned elder child, remember. My temper isn’t so damned long as you sometimes think!”

And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

[…] demands by Sakharov and others for further change—notably the dethroning of the increasingly discredited Party from its privileged position—could not be swept aside […]

Thou, Goddess-Mother, with our Sire comply, Nor break the sacred Union of the Sky: Lest, rouz’d to Rage, he shake the blest Abodes, Launch the red Lightning, and dethrone the Gods.

Word Forms

• dethrones
• dethroning
• dethroned

Synonyms for dethrone

Depending on context, synonyms include depose, discrown, disenthrone, uncrown, unking, unmonarch.

Antonyms for dethrone

Common opposites include coronate, crown, enthrone, king, queen, empower.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include uncrown, oust, dethronize, disthrone, unthrone, disenthrone.

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