unseat

un·seat

verb \-ˈsēt\

Definition of UNSEAT

transitive verb

1

: to dislodge from one's seat especially on horseback

2

: to remove from a place or position; especially : to remove from political office

Examples of UNSEAT

1. He unseated an incumbent senator.
2. The horse bucked and unseated its rider.

First Known Use of UNSEAT

1596

Related to UNSEAT

Synonyms: defrock, deprive, dethrone, displace, oust, uncrown, unmake, depose, unthrone

Antonyms: crown, enthrone, throne

Related Words: can, cashier, discharge, dismiss, fire, muster out, remove, retire, sack; overthrow, subvert, supplant, topple, usurp; banish, boot (out), bounce, cast out, chase, drum (out), eject, expel, extrude, rout, run off, throw out

Near Antonyms: baptize, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, instate, invest; appoint, designate, elect

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Rhymes with UNSEAT

accrete, aesthete, afreet, athlete, backbeat, backseat, backstreet, bedsheet, bench seat, big beat, bolete, box pleat, box seat, break beat, broadsheet, browbeat, buckwheat, bystreet, call sheet, car seat, cheat sheet, clipsheet, cloud street, cold feet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, concrete, crabmeat, crib sheet, deadbeat, dead heat, dead meat, deceit, defeat, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, disseat, downbeat, drop seat, drumbeat, dutch treat, effete, elite, en suite, entreat, escheat, excrete, facete, Fleet Street, fly sheet, forcemeat, foresheet, four-peat, gamete, groundsheet, hard wheat, heartbeat, heat-treat, helpmeet, hoofbeat, hot seat, house seat, ice sheet, ill-treat, jump seat, kick pleat, love seat, mainsheet, Main Street, maltreat, mesquite, mincemeat, mistreat, offbeat, Ossete, petite, pink sheet, preheat, rap sheet, receipt, recheat, red heat, red meat, red wheat, regreet, repeat, replete, retreat, scratch sheet, secrete, side street, slip-sheet, soft wheat, spreadsheet, stand treat, swap meet, sweetmeat, tear sheet, terete, three-peat, through street, time sheet, unmeet, upbeat, vegete, volkslied, white heat