(v. t.) To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a democratic Myanmar , the royal family – nearly lost after Thibaw was dethroned in the 19th century – think it might finally be time for a revival.
(2) He was a no-nonsense fighter, the man that almost dethroned one of the greatest fighters in the world, Muhammad Ali.
(3) Two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself 'The Greatest' and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle'; dethroning Leon Spinks in 1978 to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time.
(4) Barcelona dethroned as Manchester City reach Champions League semis – Football Weekly Extra Read more Krueger said he enjoyed a positive relationship with Koeman, who has impressed since replacing Pochettino, but stressed any new deal needed to be right for both parties.
(5) However, a surge in the popularity of regional newspaper websites owned by rivals has seen Johnston Press dethroned as the online traffic market leader.
(6) As Richard II nears dethronement, he attains a mastery of language that stuns the audience.
(7) Ten years into his papacy, Shenouda had famously fallen out with President Anwar Sadat ; in September 1981 he was summarily dethroned and banished to an ancient desert monastery.
(8) And as the dethroned champions wandered off at the finish they were probably happy to know that after this week's trip to the US to play Chelsea twice, a disappointing season can be left behind.
(9) It was elegance with a serrated edge, as the Spurs recovered from a slapdash start to win 104-87 in a clinical, yet feverish, display that underlined their superiority and dethroned the reigning NBA champions, denying Miami their third title in three years.
(10) There’s another Gypsy world champion.” Billy Joe Saunders outsmarts Andy Lee to win WBO middleweight title Read more He had just dethroned his fellow Traveller Andy Lee over 12 tense rounds, decking him twice in the third, but he was aware, too, that the media have been hunting down every squeak and indiscretion of the first member of their community to win a world heavyweight title, Tyson Fury.
(11) This new data seem to warrant the fiability of the Washio flap, however the latter cannot dethrone the Converse flap, king flap of medio-facial reconstructions.
(12) Ibn Saud had many wives, and dozens of children, and was succeeded by his eldest living son, Saud, who had even more wives, and many children, but who was dethroned and forced into exile by his younger brother Faisal, who reigned from 1964 to 1975.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In fact, that month it was the most popular YouTube channel of any category, dethroning gamer PewDiePie – 352m views that month – who usually tops the rankings by some distance.
(14) When Margaret Thatcher was dethroned, her more passionate supporters were embittered: but their vengeance took many years to play out.
(15) For most people, what follows is a long process of dethronement, as ‘His Majesty the Child’ confronts the ever more obvious and humbling truth.
(16) Whether or not the dethroned and ageing champion, notoriously a mob stooge, debt collector and ex-con, showed proper enthusiasm for getting up after Ali clipped him on the chin in the first round of their rematch in Lewiston, Maine, in 1965, is doubtful.
(17) Black Lives Matter was challenging the structural racism of the entire political system, including how it served black politicians, and blacklivesmatter.com described Jackson as “clearly dethroned from a place of either honour or leadership or relevance”.
(18) Howard Sykes, the dethroned Lib Dem council leader in Oldham, gave a weary verdict at 5.30am.
(19) The Melissa McCarthy-led comedy The Boss dethroned Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to take the No 1 spot at the US box office last weekend with an estimated opening of $23.48m (£16.53m).
(20) "Not since Wallis Simpson dethroned a king and moved to Nassau has an American femme fatale so captivated the Bahamian public and dominated local politics than Anna Nicole Smith did during her time on the island," according to a leaked memo titled "Hurricane Anna Nicole wreaks havoc in the Bahamas" .
Supplant
Definition:
(n.) To trip up.
(n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
(n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is as yet impossible to judge how far routine magnetic resonance imaging will supplant or complement CT in making the initial clinical diagnosis.
(2) EUS should not supplant the use of CT scan or ERCP in the differential diagnosis of pancreatic disease, but is rather an adjunct to these studies.
(3) Subsequent fecal samples showed a progressive supplantation of E coli by Klebsiella, Enterobacter and Proteus.
(4) The aim was to supplant the informal militias, known as the " shabiha ", who were often accused of massacres, with a more disciplined and better armed force.
(5) Interview data on some two dozen individuals obtained in the spring of 1982 was increasingly supplemented and supplanted by continued field observation and other techniques of data-gathering through the summer of 1985.
(6) The difference in kinetics for reversal between these two treatments suggests that myo-inositol addition overrides a biochemical pathway while Ca2+ addition supplants a phosphoinositide-mediated rise in the cation that may be necessary for anaphase onset.
(7) For this reason, puncture of the pouch of Douglas was increasingly--and finally completely--supplanted by laparoscopy.
(8) They also confirmed there was no guarantee that the fund will not supplant existing National Health and Medical Research Council funding – which is not quarantined.
(9) Tracheostomy is being supplanted by nasotracheal intubation as the preferred means of securing an endangered airway.
(10) As further technical refinements improve resolution and sensitivity, color Doppler may eventually supplant angiography as the primary imaging modality in peripheral arterial diagnosis, reserving arteriography for interventional procedures.
(11) While in vitro and animal test systems can never fully supplant human studies, they represent our only means for detecting potential carcinogenicity before human exposure has become widespread or long established.
(12) There has been a vigorous search for many years for chemical agents that could supplement or even supplant patient-dependent mechanical plaque control and thus reduce or prevent oral disease.
(13) Additional studies will be necessary, over extended time periods, to determine whether the bilaminar layer remains a constant feature between the HTR and the surrounding bone or whether this region is gradually supplanted by the ingrowing bone.
(14) In this study, they were capable of supplanting conventional sequences in the evaluation of intradural pathology of the spine in the sagittal plane, although conventional sequences were still preferred in the axial plane.
(15) Intravascular fetal transfusion has gained widespread acceptance and has supplanted the use of intraperitoneal fetal transfusion in management of severe alloimmune disease in many centers.
(16) The procedure has been mainly embraced by the gynecologist and its use in this field has largely supplanted culdoscopy.
(17) Currently, MRI's noninvasiveness, sensitivity and multiplanar graphic depiction of the disease process are supplanting the more traditional diagnostic modalities of CT, metrizamide CT, and myelography.
(18) The new orally administered antifungal agents ketoconazole and fluconazole have been approved for clinical use and have supplanted amphotericin B in certain situations.
(19) The ultimate goal is to develop a plan whereby the formal service providers supplement rather than supplant the care and assistance available from the older person's network.
(20) They are reminiscent of current suspicion among Palestinians of Jews seeking today to pray within the Temple Mount compound , harbouring dreams of supplanting the Haram al-Sharif mosques with a third temple.