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 β 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 β Apr. 19, 2022
By the second, it had dethroned the then-impregnable The Cosby Show.
From The Guardian β 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 β Oct. 19, 2017
The great, the young, the beautiful king of whom she was enamored, had dethroned the king her father, and Amasis had only recovered his kingdom about seven years.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
