unseat

un·seat

verb \-ˈsēt\

: to remove (someone or something) from a position of power or authority

: to cause (someone) to fall from a seat or saddle

Full Definition of UNSEAT

transitive verb

1

:  to dislodge from one's seat especially on horseback

2

:  to remove from a place or position; especially :  to remove from political office

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Examples of UNSEAT

1. He unseated an incumbent senator.
2. The horse bucked and unseated its rider.

First Known Use of UNSEAT

1596

Related to UNSEAT

Synonyms

defrock, deprive, dethrone, displace, oust, uncrown, unmake, depose, unthrone

Antonyms

crown, enthrone, throne

Related Words

can, cashier, discharge, dismiss, fire, muster out, remove, retire, sack; overthrow, subvert, supplant, topple, usurp; banish, boot (out), bounce, cast out, chase, drum (out), eject, expel, extrude, rout, run off, throw out

Near Antonyms

baptize, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, instate, invest; appoint, designate, elect

Rhymes with UNSEAT

accrete, aesthete, afreet, athlete, backbeat, backseat, backstreet, bedsheet, bench seat, big beat, bolete, box pleat, box seat, break beat, broadsheet, browbeat, buckwheat, bystreet, call sheet, car seat, cheat sheet, clipsheet, cloud street, cold feet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, concrete, crabmeat, crib sheet, deadbeat, dead heat, dead meat, deceit, defeat, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, disseat, downbeat, drop seat, drumbeat, dutch treat, effete, elite, en suite, entreat, escheat, excrete, facete, Fleet Street, fly sheet, forcemeat, foresheet, four-peat, gamete, groundsheet, hard wheat, heartbeat, heat-treat, helpmeet, hoofbeat, hot seat, house seat, ice sheet, ill-treat, jump seat, kick pleat, love seat, mainsheet, Main Street, maltreat, mesquite, mincemeat, mistreat, offbeat, Ossete, petite, pink sheet, preheat, rap sheet, receipt, recheat, red heat, red meat, red wheat, regreet, repeat, replete, retreat, scratch sheet, secrete, side street, slip-sheet, soft wheat, spreadsheet, stand treat, swap meet, sweetmeat, tear sheet, terete, three-peat, through street, time sheet, unmeet, upbeat, vegete, volkslied, white heat