unseat
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʌnˈsiːt/
unseat (unseats, present participle unseating; 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.
- To deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election, or simply by defeating them in an election.
- Having lost her seat to a Tory, she succeeded in unseating him in the next general election.
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