unseating
Toppling from position
Unseating is displacing someone from a position of power or authority.
The literal sense involves knocking a rider from a horse or saddle, but the word appears most often in political contexts: The challenger succeeded in unseating the incumbent senator.
A legal ruling might unseat an elected official, or a scandal might unseat a CEO.
Remove from authority
- oustRemove from position
- overthrowForcible removal from power
- dethroneRemove from sovereignty
- toppleCause to fall
remove · impeachment · coup · regime change · abdication · usurpation · succession · power grab
Force from position
- throwPropel by arm motion
- buckMale deer or dollar
- dismountGet off something ridden
- knock offUnauthorized replica product
eject · topple · fall · horse · rider · saddle · stirrup · bucking
Act of taking away
- relocationPermanent change of residence
- dislodgementRemoval from position
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- evictionForced departure from rental
repositioning · displacement · rearrangement · transfer · shift · movement · replace · supplant
Disturb, topple, or shock
- defeatVictory over another
- dethroneRemove from sovereignty
- championTop competitor, or advocate
- titleFormal honorific or name
underdog · challenger · reigning · defending · tournament · knockout · elimination · rank
depose
Remove from authority
topple · remove · impeachment · coup · regime change · abdication · usurpation · succession · power grab · takeover
dislodge
Force from position
knock off · eject · topple · fall · horse · rider · saddle · stirrup · bucking · thrown
removal
Act of taking away
- relocationPermanent change of residence
- dislodgementRemoval from position
- expulsionForced permanent removal
eviction · repositioning · displacement · rearrangement · transfer · shift · movement · replace · supplant · substitute
upset
Disturb, topple, or shock
title · underdog · challenger · reigning · defending · tournament · knockout · elimination · rank · standings
- expulsionsejection, ousting, expelling, forcing out, eviction
- Royal Exitsabdication, deposition, dethronement, overthrow, ouster
- coupscoup d'etat, overthrow, coup attempt, soft coup, failed coup
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
- replacementsreplacement, substitution, supplanting, changeover, upgrade
unseatinginstalling
Putting into position
seating · enthroning · inauguration · inaugurating · crowning
unseatingseating
Available places to sit
mounting · settling · securing · stabilizing · positioning
unseatingestablishing
Creating or setting up
creation · instituting · founding · building · constructing
seat, session, seats, seated, seating, unseat, sedate, sedative, sedentary