0 present participle of unseat
1 to remove someone from power, especially as a result of an election:
2 If a horse unseats its rider, it throws them from its back.
These two are so linked together on this issue that you could not attack one without unseating the other.
He is one of the greatest demagogues and perhaps one of the greatest experts when it comes to pushing aside troublesome rivals or unseating others who come to power.
In fact, a plural voter, possibly acting ignorantly and in all good faith, may jeopardise the election, and possibly lead to the unseating of a perfectly innocent man.
Natural contraction and expansion of the wires tied to these threadless insulators resulted in insulators unseating from their pins, requiring manual reseating.
He was successful, unexpectedly unseating the impregnable incumbent member.
Mormons tended to vote as a bloc there often unseating local political leadership.
This comprehensive list included public roads, tariffs, coining, collecting punitive fees, and the investiture, the seating and unseating of office holders.
Between 1857 and 1868 six petitions were lodged against election results, of which three succeeded in voiding the election and unseating one or more of the victors.
