unseat

Verb

Meaning

To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.

Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

evert can fire remove replace drop reverse throw discharge upset overthrow crack dismiss expel spill
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Antonyms

king name place set baptize accept
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Hypernyms

move remove displace

Related terms

reseat beseat

Anagrams

nasute Austen Natsue Nauset untaes

Examples

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. Gene Fowler

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. Gordon W. Allport

The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat Source: Internet

After reading the comments of the four Republicans hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, I was struck by how almost all Republicans are following the Donald Trump/Fox News playbook. Source: Internet

A coalition of anti-Bolshevik groups attempted to unseat the new government in the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1922. Source: Internet

And Rush Limbaugh, despite his at times past decent analysis of the attempts to unseat the president, in the noon hour led off with the same talking point: “It is,” he said, “logical for the Russians to be supporting Sanders.” Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

unseasonally unseasoned unseasoned in unseatable unseatbelted unseated