disenthrone
Oust from power
To disenthrone is to remove from a throne—to dethrone.
The word is rare and literary, appearing mostly in older texts: The rebels sought to disenthrone the tyrant.
Dethrone is the standard form in modern usage.
Remove from authority
unthrone · remove · displace · eject · expel · supplant · dispossess · strip
Seize without right
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- supplantReplace by force
- seizeTake suddenly, forcibly
- overturnReverse or invalidate
subvert · overpower · conquer · vanquish · wrest · commandeer · arrogate · appropriate
Organized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- mutinyRevolt against authority
coup · sedition · insurgency · overthrow · liberation · revolution · anarchy · radicalism
Descend under gravity
- collapseSudden structural failure
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- defeatVictory over another
- disgraceLoss of honor
humiliation · degradation · debasement · shame · decline · demise · undoing · comeuppance
depose
Remove from authority
uncrown · unthrone · remove · displace · eject · expel · supplant · dispossess · strip · divest
usurp
Seize without right
overturn · subvert · overpower · conquer · vanquish · wrest · commandeer · arrogate · appropriate · coup
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
mutiny · coup · sedition · insurgency · overthrow · liberation · revolution · anarchy · radicalism · iconoclasm
fall
Descend under gravity
disgrace · humiliation · degradation · debasement · shame · decline · demise · undoing · comeuppance · ignominy