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Synonyms for unseat
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : uhn-seet |
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈsit |
Définition of unseat
Origin :- 1590s, "to throw down from a seat" (especially on horseback), from un- (2) + seat (v.). Meaning "to deprive of rank or office" is attested from 1610s; especially of elected office in a representative body from 1834. Related: Unseated; unseating.
- verb unsaddle
- verb oust
- verb remove from office
- Like a good pose in the saddle, nothing could ever unseat the equanimity of Elizabeth.
- Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
- Shall the word of such a one as Macer the Christian, unseat my trust in such a one as Fronto?
- Extract from : « Aurelian » by William Ware
- It means when you are through That you don't want your daddy to Unseat you, as he used to do.
- Extract from : « Bib Ballads » by Ring W. Lardner
- There was not a horse on the plantation, nor in the county which could unseat him.
- Extract from : « The Story of John Paul Jones » by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
- The horses tried every means to unseat their rider, but in vain.
- Extract from : « Redskin and Cow-Boy » by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
- How impossible it all looked—to unseat from this high rock the Empire of France!
- Extract from : « The Seats Of The Mighty, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- I struggled, but the snow was soft and I sank the deeper, and could not unseat her.
- Extract from : « The Little Red Foot » by Robert W. Chambers
- But all the bull's furious bucking and jumping could not unseat the rider.
- Extract from : « A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open » by Theodore Roosevelt
- Some day he will go back and endeavour to unseat the individual who supplanted him.
- Extract from : « The Kidnapped President » by Guy Boothby
- It took an upheaval little short of an earthquake to unseat him.
- Extract from : « The March Family Trilogy, Complete » by William Dean Howells
Antonyms for unseat
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