Disenthrone

Quick meaning: Disenthrone is a verb meaning To remove (someone) from their position as monarch; to deprive of a position of supremacy.

Meaning

To remove (someone) from their position as monarch; to deprive of a position of supremacy.

More Meanings

1. To move (someone or something) from a desirable location or place of honour.
2. (figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.

Example Sentences

[…] to disinthrone the King of Heav’n / We warr […]

She remembered how she had so often disenthroned her father from his favorite chair for parlor dates […]

Honora moved with a slow hauteur in her black gown, looking like a disenthroned queen, and as she walked down the train aisle Kate thought of Marie Antoinette.

For many youths, magical feats represent one of the most intriguing possibilities of Eastern disciplines. They offer the hope of beating science at its own game, on its own territory. The self-cure of cancer is such a case: how satisfying it would be to disenthrone all the oncologists in a single blow!

Word Forms

• disenthrones
• disenthroning
• disenthroned
• disinthrone

Synonyms for disenthrone

Depending on context, synonyms include depose, dethrone, discrown, uncrown, unking, unthrone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dethrone, dethronize, uncrown, disthrone, unseat, unthrone.

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