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dethroning

verb , present participle of dethrone

Synonyms and Antonyms of dethroning

to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne)

the nation's last monarch was dethroned in a popular uprising many years ago

Synonyms of dethroning

defrocking, deposing, depriving, displacing, ousting, uncrowning, unmaking, unseating, unthroning

Words Related to dethroning

canning, cashiering, discharging, dismissing, firing, mustering out, removing, retiring, sacking

overthrowing, subverting, supplanting, toppling, usurping

banishing, booting (out), bouncing, casting out, chasing, drumming (out), ejecting, expelling, extruding, routing, running off, throwing out

Near Antonyms of dethroning

baptizing (also baptising), inaugurating, inducting, initiating, installing, instating, investing

appointing, designating, electing

Antonyms of dethroning

crowning, enthroning, throning

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