English Dictionary |
DETHRONE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does dethrone mean?
• DETHRONE (verb)
The verb DETHRONE has 1 sense:
1. remove a monarch from the throne
Familiarity information: DETHRONE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: dethroned
Past participle: dethroned
-ing form: dethroning
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)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once." (William Shakespeare)
"I'm up to it and to any great thing." (Arabic proverb)
"He who eats holy bread has to deserve it." (Corsican proverb)