uncrown

Verb

uncrown (third-person singular simple present uncrowns, present participle uncrowning, simple past and past participle uncrowned)

1. To deprive of the monarchy or other authority or status.
   • Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
     And therefore I’ll uncrown him ere’t be long.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
   • […] this poor fool clung to Lear after he had given away his crown, and by his witty sayings would keep up his good humour, though he could not refrain sometimes from jeering at his master for his imprudence in uncrowning himself, and giving all away to his daughters;1807, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, “King Lear”, in Tales from Shakespeare, London: Thomas Hodgkins, page 199

   Synonyms:

   decrown, depose, dethrone, discrown, disenthrone, unking, unthrone

2. To remove a crown from (often figuratively).
   • When rigid Cold in Ice hath all things bound,
     And Forrests of their Summers pride uncrown’d.1648, Seneca the Younger, translated by Edward Sherburne, Medea a Tragedie, London: Humphrey Moseley, act IV, scene 1, page 39
   • How many mountains did the waves uncrown,
     Bouncing against them like a batt’ring Ram!1655, Luís de Camões, translated by Richard Fanshawe, The Lusiad, London: Humphrey Moseley, Canto 6, Stanza 79, p. 132