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What does dethrone mean?

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Verb
  1. To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.
  2. To remove any governing authority from power.
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Venus' next foe is Australia's Alicia Molik, who has confidence she can dethrone the queen of Flushing Meadows.
With Saturday's all-around finals set up as a Russian duel, Chaschina was asked if she could dethrone the reigning world champ.
There was even a serious attempt to dethrone a batting king seven decades after he won his title.
And despite some ragged games and contract holdouts at the beginning of the season, it will take some mighty tough play to dethrone the defending champions.
We dethrone the heroes of the day and exalt new ones in the journals and popular media.
Current discoveries in gene-splicing further dethrone human beings as the unique center of the universe.

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