dethrone
verb (used with object)
to remove from a throne; depose.
had dethroned
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past perfectof dethrone.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Hip-hop, a genre he'd disparaged as "tone deaf", had dethroned R&B as the sound of urban America.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
Coffey’s Oilers months before that 1984 goal had dethroned Bossy’s Islanders as Cup champions to start their own dynastic run.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
By the second, it had dethroned the then-impregnable The Cosby Show.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2018
In 2011, there were a lot of companies trying to be the next Facebook—to dethrone the dominant social network the way it had dethroned Myspace a few years earlier.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2017
His brother, whom he had dethroned after a popular insurrection, had now taken arms and just seized Cabul.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
