unseated; unseating; unseats
1
: to dislodge from one's seat especially on horseback
2
: to remove from a place or position
especially
: to remove from political office
Examples of unseat in a Sentence
He unseated an incumbent senator.
The horse bucked and unseated its rider.
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 Nov. 2025
In 2023, Gallaher had mounted a campaign to try and unseat Dave DeGroot as Mount Pleasant village board president, blaming incumbents for the Foxconn misadventure.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
But head coach Devvin Anderson’s squad put up a valiant effort in hopes of unseating the defending Class 4A Division I champion at Pennington Field.
—Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Nov. 2025
Lombardo flipped the governorship in the 2022 midterms, unseating then-Governor Steve Sisolak in what became a warning sign for Democrats about the state's trajectory two years later.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseat. Accessed 3 Dec. 2025.
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unseat
verb
un·seat
ˌən-ˈsēt 
ˈən-
1
: to throw 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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