DEFROCKED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

defrocked

verb

past tense of defrock

as in deposed

to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne) the movie's director was defrocked for going way over budget

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Recent Examples of defrocked While a review board deemed the abuse credible, the Vatican -- at the urging of then-Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin -- let Allard retire rather than be defrocked. —

Arkansas Online, 24 Feb. 2026

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McIndoe was one of a dozen Los Angeles firefighters deposed in January in a lawsuit filed by Palisades fire victims against the city and the state.

— Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026
That event restored Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to the throne and, after the monarch was deposed in the 1979 Islamic revolution, played a central role in the Islamic Republic’s anti-US narrative.

— Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026