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disthronizing

disthronizing is the present participle and gerund of disthronize.

Meaning of disthronize

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

Questions about disthronizing

What is disthronizing the present participle and gerund of?
Disthronizing is the present participle and gerund of disthronize.

Words near disthronizing in the dictionary

  1. disthrones
  2. disthroning
  3. disthronize
  4. disthronized
  5. disthronizes
  6. disthronizing
  7. disti-
  8. distibine
  9. distibines
  10. distich
  11. distichal

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