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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Alana Wise, NPR, 20 June 2025
Sirens has been dominating the Netflix charts for a couple weeks now, only being temporarily unseated by two Mondays of WWE RAW.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Andrew Cuomo is currently running as both a Democrat and third-party candidate to unseat N.Y.C. Mayor Eric Adams, who is facing federal criminal charges.
—Meredith Kile, People.com, 3 June 2025
Nearly 25 years have passed since an upstart Harlem minister tried to unseat the venerable Charlie Rangel, as much an institution as the Apollo Theater or the nearby Lenox Lounge.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
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“Unseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unseat. Accessed 25 Jun. 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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