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unseat

Syllables: un·seat/(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːt/US/ˌʌnˈsit/

unseat verb: to dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback.

unseat: to dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback
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Verb

unseat (third-person singular simple present unseats, present participle unseating, simple past and past participle unseated)

  1. (transitive) To dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback.
    • The frightened horse reared up and unseated its rider.
    • I was unseated from my bike after hitting an unexpected pothole.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a political one; to dethrone.
    • After having lost her seat to a Tory, she succeeded in unseating him in the next general election.
    • India has recently unseated China as the world’s most populous country.
    Synonyms:
    depose, oust, overthrow
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, to overturn.
    • The Michelson-Morley experiment prompted scientists to unseat their belief in the luminiferous aether.
    • Printed newspapers are gradually being unseated by digital publications.
    Synonyms:
    oust, supersede, supplant
    Antonyms:
    confirm, preserve
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To upset the composure of (someone); to astound, to shock, to unsettle.
    • The Matrix (1999) utterly unseated audiences around the world with its mind-blowing plot twist.
    • I was somewhat unseated by the strange noises outside my window.
  5. (intransitive) To come off or out of a seat.
    • We replaced the screws, since the old ones unseated too easily.
    • When the feed-valve unseats, air begins to enter the train line and the black hand moves up; […]1907, Straight Air Brakes; […], Scranton, P.A.: International Textbook Company, pages 50–51

unseat meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

unseat in Tamil

இருக்கையினின்றும் அகற்ற

unseat in Malayalam

dismount, dislodge, throw
താഴെ ഇറക്കുക, എറക്കുക, ഇറക്കിവിടുക, വീഴ്ത്തുക, പുറത്താക്കുക, തെറിപ്പിക്കുക
oust, depose, remove from office
മറിച്ചിടുക, സ്ഥാനഭ്രഷ്ടനാക്കുക, പുറത്താക്കുക, സ്ഥാനഭ്രംശം വരുത്തുക, മറിക്കുക, അധികാരസ്ഥാനത്തുനിന്നു മാറ്റുക

unseat in Kannada

ಕುಳಿತಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಎಬ್ಬಿಸು, ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿಸು

Examples of unseat in a sentence

  • They nearly unseated me from the suddenness of the attack, and as I recovered I certainly struck at them with my whip.1898, G[eorge] A[lfred] Henty, At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt, London; Glasgow: Blackie & Son, →OCLC, page 23:
  • It unseated me, and I fell, my boots sliding out of the stirrups as if they were greased.1980, Bill Pronzini, Mummy! A Chrestomathy of Crypt-ology, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, →ISBN, page 237:
  • On Thursday, You Take the Cake, after finishing third in a low-level sprint, fell to the ground and unseated her rider, Wilmer Garcia.2015 January 16, Joe Drape, “Horses' deaths at aqueduct prompt new rules”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...
  • The torque will unseat at least one of the bars pretty easily.2017, Rachel Caine [pseudonym; Roxanne Longstreet Conrad], Ash and Quill, New York, N.Y.: Berkley, →ISBN, page 34:

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Synonyms of unseat

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of unseat

Forms of unseat

third-person singular presentunseats
present participleunseating
past participleunseated
pastunseated

Past tense of unseat: unseated

Origin of unseat

From un- (suffix meaning ‘not’) + seat (“to provide with a place to sit”).

Words formed from unseat

Words that rhyme with unseat

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Questions about unseat

What does unseat mean?
Unseat means to dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback.
What is unseat in Tamil?
Unseat in Tamil is இருக்கையினின்றும் அகற்ற. See Unseat meaning in Tamil.
How do you use unseat in a sentence?
They nearly unseated me from the suddenness of the attack, and as I recovered I certainly struck at them with my whip.
What part of speech is unseat?
Unseat is a verb.
How do you pronounce unseat?
Unseat is pronounced /(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of unseat?
The past tense of unseat is unseated.

Words near unseat in the dictionary

  1. unseasonally
  2. unseasoned
  3. unseasoning
  4. unseasonly
  5. unseasons
  6. unseat
  7. unseatable
  8. unseatbelted
  9. unseated
  10. unseater
  11. unseaters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unseat (page history and authors); unseat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unseat (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unseat (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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