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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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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.
Hunter is confident that he has the ability to dethrone the defending champion.
It could soon dethrone the local cable-TV firm as the dominant provider of pay-TV services.
I think Jay Cutler was at his best, but it wasn't good enough to dethrone the reigning Mr. Olympia, Ronnie Coleman.
If sustained, the cessation of great power war would dethrone military interaction from its millennia-long reign as the principal defining process of international systems.
As a result, attempts to dethrone Henry were poorly supported in England and the Yorkist pretenders failed to carry conviction.

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