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DETHRONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dethrone mean? 

DETHRONE (verb)
  The verb DETHRONE has 1 sense:

1. remove a monarch from the throneplay

  Familiarity information: DETHRONE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DETHRONE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they dethrone  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it dethrones  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: dethroned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: dethroned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: dethroning  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove a monarch from the throne

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned

Hypernyms (to "dethrone" is one way to...):

disinvest; divest (deprive of status or authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

enthrone (put a monarch on the throne)

Derivation:

dethronement (the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office)


 Context examples 


Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, but managed to compound a drug by which these powers should be dethroned from their supremacy, and a second form and countenance substituted, none the less natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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