dethrone

verb4

1. •
   To depose; to forcibly relieve a monarch of the monarchy.

   • Thou, Goddess-Mother, with our Sire comply, / Nor break the sacred Union of the Sky: / Lest, rouz’d to Rage, he shake the blest Abodes, / Launch the red Lightning, and dethrone the Gods. — 1715
2. •
   To remove any governing authority from power.

   • […] demands by Sakharov and others for further change—notably the dethroning of the increasingly discredited Party from its privileged position—could not be swept aside […] — 2005
3. •
   To remove from any position of high status or power.

   • “[…] I’m a dethroned elder child, remember. My temper isn’t so damned long as you sometimes think!” — 1954
4. •
   (figurative) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.

   • All that was Good and Holy, is dethron’d, / And Lust, and Rapine are for justice own’d. — 1672