"dethrone" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: dethrones [present, singular, third-person], dethroning [participle, present], dethroned [participle, past], dethroned [past]
Etymology: From de- + throne. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰer-}}, {{af|en|de-|throne}} de- + throne Head templates: {{en-verb}} dethrone (third-person singular simple present dethrones, present participle dethroning, simple past and past participle dethroned)
  1. To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy. Synonyms: depose, discrown, disenthrone, uncrown, unking, unsceptre, unthrone
    Sense id: en-dethrone-en-verb-yn~DHYD2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 31 24 11 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 27 24 26 23
  2. To remove any governing authority from power. Synonyms: bring down, depose, divest, overthrow Translations (remove governing authority from power): syöstä vallasta (Finnish), absetzen (German), stürzen (German), eltávolít (Hungarian), lemondat (Hungarian), hivatalától megfoszt (Hungarian), megbuktat (Hungarian), 引き摺り下ろす (hikizuriorosu) (Japanese), răsturna (Romanian), prăbuși (Romanian), сверга́ть (svergátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), све́ргнуть (svérgnutʹ) [perfective] (Russian), detronisera (Swedish), avsätta (Swedish), скида́ти (skydáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), ски́нути (skýnuty) [perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-dethrone-en-verb-ZNU6xfgU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 31 24 11 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 27 24 26 23 Disambiguation of 'remove governing authority from power': 2 46 23 29
  3. To remove from any position of high status or power.
    Sense id: en-dethrone-en-verb-YVr0cFY0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 31 24 11 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 27 24 26 23
  4. (figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance. Tags: figuratively Translations (forcibly remove a monarch): destronar (Catalan), syöstä vallasta (Finnish), détrôner (French), entthronen (German), absetzen (German), stürzen (German), trónjától megfoszt (Hungarian), destronizar (Ido), detronizzare (Italian), 引き摺り下ろす (hikizuriorosu) (Japanese), 廃位する (haii suru) (Japanese), detrona (Romanian), сверга́ть (svergátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), све́ргнуть (svérgnutʹ) [perfective] (Russian), destronar (Spanish), detronisera (Swedish), störta från tronen (Swedish), детронізувати (detronizuvaty) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-dethrone-en-verb-ybIx8JUQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 31 24 11 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 27 24 26 23 Disambiguation of 'forcibly remove a monarch': 24 23 22 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dethronable, dethronement, undethronable, undethroned Related terms: destool, abdicate, coup d'état

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal, No. 23, 24 March, 1753, Volume 1, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 168,\n[…] we conclude, sincerely wishing, that you may continue to display your usual Graces of Elocution, and admirable Powers of Action, untill Harlequin shall dethrone the great Shakespear, or Pierot usurp the Seat of Johnson."
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          "ref": "1954, Peter De Vries, chapter 6, in The Tunnel of Love, Boston: Little, Brown, page 53",
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          "ref": "1972, Robertson Davies, The Manticore, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, published 2015, Part 2, Chapter 2",
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          "word": "install"
        },
        {
          "word": "invest"
        },
        {
          "word": "take office"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1740, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 3, Part 2, Section 10, p. 183",
          "text": "Not only where the chief magistrate enters into measures, in themselves, extremely pernicious to the public, but even when he wou’d encroach on the other parts of the constitution, and extend his power beyond the legal bounds, it is allowable to resist and dethrone him;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Penguin, Part 2, Chapter 19, p. 600",
          "text": "[…] 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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove any governing authority from power."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remove",
          "remove"
        ],
        [
          "govern",
          "govern"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bring down"
        },
        {
          "word": "depose"
        },
        {
          "word": "divest"
        },
        {
          "word": "overthrow"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal, No. 23, 24 March, 1753, Volume 1, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 168,\n[…] we conclude, sincerely wishing, that you may continue to display your usual Graces of Elocution, and admirable Powers of Action, untill Harlequin shall dethrone the great Shakespear, or Pierot usurp the Seat of Johnson."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Peter De Vries, chapter 6, in The Tunnel of Love, Boston: Little, Brown, page 53",
          "text": "[…] I’m a dethroned elder child, remember. My temper isn’t so damned long as you sometimes think!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Ballantine, page 17",
          "text": "My socialist posturing was also a way of social climbing, since I always included my father among the capitalists I was determined to dethrone, whereas he was just a small entrepreneur.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove from any position of high status or power."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "status",
          "status"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1672, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada, London: Henry Herringman, act V, page 140",
          "text": "All that was Good and Holy, is dethron’d,\nAnd Lust, and Rapine are for justice own’d.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Robertson Davies, The Manticore, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, published 2015, Part 2, Chapter 2",
          "text": "So I am to dethrone my Intellect and set Emotion in its place. Is that it?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "paramount",
          "paramount"
        ],
        [
          "importance",
          "importance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "destronar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "syöstä vallasta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "détrôner"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "entthronen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "absetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "stürzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "trónjától megfoszt"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "destronizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "detronizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hikizuriorosu",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "引き摺り下ろす"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "haii suru",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "廃位する"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "detrona"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svergátʹ",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "сверга́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svérgnutʹ",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "све́ргнуть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "destronar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "detronisera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "störta från tronen"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "detronizuvaty",
      "sense": "forcibly remove a monarch",
      "word": "детронізувати"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "syöstä vallasta"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "absetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "stürzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "eltávolít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "lemondat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "hivatalától megfoszt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "megbuktat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hikizuriorosu",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "引き摺り下ろす"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "răsturna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "prăbuși"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svergátʹ",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "сверга́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svérgnutʹ",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "све́ргнуть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "detronisera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "word": "avsätta"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "skydáty",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "скида́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "skýnuty",
      "sense": "remove governing authority from power",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ски́нути"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dethrone"
}

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