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disthronize

disthronize verb: to remove from the throne, to dethrone.

Verb

disthronize (third-person singular simple present disthronizes, present participle disthronizing, simple past and past participle disthronized)

  1. (archaic, rare) To remove from the throne, to dethrone.
    • Deposed was from Princedome soueraine, / And pitteous Elidure put in his sted; / Who shortly it to him restord againe, / Till by his death he it recouered; / But Peridure and Vigent him disthronized.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of disthronize

third-person singular presentdisthronizes
present participledisthronizing
past participledisthronized
pastdisthronized

Origin of disthronize

From dis- + throne + -ize.

Questions about disthronize

What does disthronize mean?
Disthronize means to remove from the throne, to dethrone.
What part of speech is disthronize?
Disthronize is a verb.
What is the past tense of disthronize?
The past tense of disthronize is disthronized.

Words near disthronize in the dictionary

  1. disthenes
  2. disthrone
  3. disthroned
  4. disthrones
  5. disthroning
  6. disthronize
  7. disthronized
  8. disthronizes
  9. disthronizing
  10. disti-
  11. distibine

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