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Definition: Dethrone |
DethroneVerb1. Remove a monarch from the throne; "If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dethrone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Dethrone \De*throne"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Dethroned; present participle verb or noun Dethroning.]. (references) |
| Antonym: enthrone (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abrogation | Cashier; break; oust; unseat, unsaddle; unthrone, dethrone, disenthrone; depose, uncrown; unfrock, strike off the roll; disbar, disbench. |
Laxity | Dethrone, depose; abdicate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dethrone |
| English words defined with "dethrone": Dethroned, Dethroning, Dethronize, Disenthrone, Disthrone, Disthronize ♦ Uncrown, Unthrone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dethrone": Macduff. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dethrone": Disthronize. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Says Dethrone the Dictaphone hit it in his funny bone and that's where they (Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen); performing artist: MANFRED MANN) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Dethrone" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dethrone" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dethrone | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dethrone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck), heq nga froni. (various references) | |
Arabic | خلع عن مقام, خلع عن العرش. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свалям от престола (discrown, uncrown, unking, unthrone), развенчавам (debunk), детронирам (discrown, uncrown, unthrone). (various references) | |
Czech | zbavit trùnu (discrown), sesadit z trùnu (unthrone). (various references) | |
Farsi | عزل کردن , خلع کردن (Depose). (various references) | |
Finnish | syöstä valtaistuimelta. (various references) | |
French | détrôner. (various references) | |
German | entthronen (depose). (various references) | |
Greek | εκθρονίζω (depose). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megfoszt trónjától. (various references) | |
Italian | detronizzare. (various references) | |
Manx | goaill y crooin voish (dethronement). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ethroneday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | destronar (disenthrone, uncrown, unthrone). (various references) | |
Romanian | detrona (depose, discrown, unthrone), depune (lay down). (various references) | |
Russian | свергать (depose). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zbaciti (buck, cast off, spill, throw down, throw off), svrgnuti s prestola (unthrone). (various references) | |
Spanish | destronar (unthrone). (various references) | |
Swedish | avsätta (displace, remove). (various references) | |
Turkish | tahttan indirmek (depose, unthrone). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | усувати (abolish, brush aside, castigate, depose, displace, eliminate, obviate, preclude, put away, smooth, smooth away, take off, vanish), скидати з престолу (unthrone). (various references) | |
Welsh | diorseddu (depose). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dethrone": dethroned, dethronement, dethronements, dethroner, dethroners, dethrones. (additional references) | |
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"Dethrone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Datronech, denthrone, Detchon, detrunk, dotronix, Dunthorne, Dutronc, Kethro. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dethrone" (pronounced dēthrō"n) |
| 4 | -th r ō" n | overthrown, throne, thrown. |
| 3 | -r ō" n | crone, drone, groan, grown, homegrown, outgrown, overgrown, prone, roan, trone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: threnode. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: erodent, thereon, thorned, throned. | |
-2 letters: dehorn, dehort, denote, hented, hereon, hereto, hetero, horned, hornet, nether, nother, redone, rented, rodent, tender, teredo, throne. | |
-3 letters: deter, doeth, donee, doter, drone, ender, enter, erode, ether, heder, heron, honed, honer, horde, north, noted, noter, other, redon, rente, tenor, terne, there, thorn, three, throe, toned, toner, treed, treen. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: bethorned, dethroned, dethroner, dethrones, endotherm, enthroned, shortened, threnodes. | |
+2 letters: dethroners, endotherms, endothermy, heterodyne, overhunted, threnodies. | |
+3 letters: downhearted, endothermic, groundsheet, heldentenor, heterodyned, heterodynes, hydrogenate, ironhearted, lionhearted, netherworld, openhearted, overnighted, pentahedron, reenthroned, rhinestoned, tetrahedron, truncheoned, unretouched. | |
+4 letters: dechlorinate, dethronement, endothermies, endotracheal, groundsheets, heldentenors, heterodyning, housetrained, hydrogenated, hydrogenates, netherworlds, pentahedrons, rehypnotized, stonyhearted, tetrahedrons, thunderstone, underclothes. | |
+5 letters: brokenhearted, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, dehydrogenate, dethronements, downheartedly, dryopithecine, foreshortened, nonhereditary, norethindrone, openheartedly, overtightened, photoengraved, thenceforward, thundershower, thunderstones, thunderstroke, trapezohedron. | |
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