unseat

English

Etymology

un- +‎ seat

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʌnˈsiːt/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

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

To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
The frightened horse reared up and unseated its rider.
- 1999, Jake Logan, Slocum 243: Slocum and the Buffalo Hunter:
  He let out a war hoop. Then he charged his horse up to her, reached over, and took her in his arms and kissed her. His actions almost unseated the both of them. When he drew back, he saw the red on her face, and sheepishly looked around at the crowd that had rushed outside the businesses to see what was happening.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 78:
  The cob bucked and bucked, till his backbone resembled a bow tightly strung, his four legs meeting under him - and he fairly screamed with rage because he could not unseat his rider, who sat on him with hands well down, as calmly as if he were taking a morning canter in the Row.
(transitive) To deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election, or simply by defeating them in an election.
- 1988, Michael Mandelbaum, The Fate of Nations:
  The French Revolution had unseated the king, and although Napoleon took his place and put his relatives on other European thrones, the fate of the Bourbons was an abiding nightmare and a great cautionary lesson for the other monarchs
- 1983, Derek Townsend, Jigsaw: The Biography of Johannes Bjelke-Petersen:
  it was Bill Lonergan who, many years later, was one of the four who eventually moved to unseat me after I had been Premier for two years.
Having lost her seat to a Tory, she succeeded in unseating him in the next general election.
To render unstable.
- 1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Hypnos:
  Just what happened is unknown, for not only was my own mind unseated by the strange and hideous thing, but others were tainted with a forgetfulness which can mean nothing if not madness.

References

“unseat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

Austen, Autens, Natsue, nasute, sun tea, uneats