dethronement
- n the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office
- In this way he could defer his dethronement, but sooner or later the Opposition would "get" him, as it has recently made plain it would do.
- For sheer theatricality, Valry Giscard d'Estaing's passing from the presidency in France rivaled King Richard II's dethronement in Shakespeare's play.
- Egypt's pudgy ex-King Farouk, never a man to conceal his liking for girls, was busy beating down one of the most start ling rumors about himself to arise since his dethronement .