de-crown

Verb

decrown (third-person singular simple present decrowns, present participle decrowning, simple past and past participle decrowned)

1. (transitive) To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
   • the Popes […] authority to decrowne Kings1630, Thomas Adams, “The Contagion of Sinne”, in The Workes of Thomas Adams

   Synonyms:

   discrown, uncrown

2. (transitive) To decoronate (a tooth).
3. (transitive) To remove the crown of a pineapple, strawberry, etc.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To deprive of supremacy or exaltedness.
   • Laughter for laughter's sake and the allied mocking of social values and decrowning of all dogmatic forms of authority this entails.2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 70