unseat
/ʌnˈsiːt/
verb
- 1
To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
“The frightened horse reared up and unseated its rider.”
- 2
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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