unseated; unseating; unseats
1
: to dislodge from one's seat especially on horseback
2
: to remove from a place or position
especially
: to remove from political office
Examples of unseat in a Sentence
He unseated an incumbent senator.
The horse bucked and unseated its rider.
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025
Current assessor Cassandra Holbert Elston is seeking to unseat Figgs.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
And worst of all, once embedded, that leader is very hard to unseat.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
Ossoff, meanwhile, won his Senate election in 2020, unseating former GOP Senator David Perdue with just a 1.2-point margin of victory.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseat. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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unseat
verb
un·seat
ˌən-ˈsēt 
ˈən-
1
: to throw from one's seat especially on horseback
2
: to remove from a place or position
especially
: to remove from political office
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