UNSEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unseat mean? 

• UNSEAT (verb)
  The verb UNSEAT has 2 senses:

1. remove from political office

2. dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse

  Familiarity information: UNSEAT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSEAT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they unseat    ... he / she / it unseats   
Past simple: unseated   
Past participle: unseated   
-ing form: unseating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from political office

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat

Hypernyms (to "unseat" is one way to...):

remove (remove from a position or an office)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "unseat" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

 Context examples 

God knows I have!—a trouble which is enough to unseat my reason, so sudden and so terrible is it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His reason was unseated by the blind yearning of the flesh to exist and move, at all hazards to move, to continue to move, for movement was the expression of its existence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Not only were they new to her, and contrary to her own beliefs, but she always felt in them germs of truth that threatened to unseat or modify her own convictions.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The last conscious effort which imagination made was to show me a livid white face bending over me out of the mist. I must be careful of such dreams, for they would unseat one's reason if there were too much of them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)