dethrone

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DETHRONE, verb transitive [Latin] 1. To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of royal authority and dignity. 2. To divest of rule or power, or of supreme power. The protector was dethroned.
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