dethrone
verb (used with object)
to remove from a throne; depose.
dethroner
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a word derived from
dethrone.
Example Sentences
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None of this Shall bend my sturdy will and make me speak The name of his dethroner who shall come.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
At this time they were erecting a column on the heights, on which, we understood from the fishing-boats, an equestrian statue of that great dethroner, Bonaparte, was to be placed.
From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan
