unseat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
Etymology: From un- (suffix meaning ‘not’) + seat (“to provide with a place to sit”).
Base: seat
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unseats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unseating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unseated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unseated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The frightened horse reared up and unseated its rider.
I was unseated from my bike after hitting an unexpected pothole.
VVhom boldly I encountred (as I could) / And by good fortune ſhortly him vnſeated. / Eftſoones out ſprung two more of equall mould; / But I them both with equall hap defeated: […]
But Conſtantine [the Great] […] diſplaced and unſeated this huge maſſe [an obelisk], yea, and thinking truly, that it vvas no breach nor offence of religion, if taking this admirable monument out of one temple, he conſecrated it in Rome, that is to ſay, the temple of the vvhole vvorld, ſuffered it to lye a long time, vvhiles neceſſarie meanes for the tranſlation thereof vvere a providing.
His horſe, as he had caught he maſter's mood, / Snorting, and ſtarting into ſudden rage, / Unbidden, and not novv to be controul'd, / Rusſh'd to the cliff, and having reach'd it, ſtood / At once the shock unſeated him.
He had another formidable difficulty in getting him across the river, where both horses stuck for a time in the mire, and Beatte was nearly unseated from his saddle by the force of the current and the struggles of his captive.
They nearly unseated me from the suddenness of the attack, and as I recovered I certainly struck at them with my whip.
Gray screamed and shuddered, rearing and turning as the ground opened in front of us. It unseated me, and I fell, my boots sliding out of the stirrups as if they were greased.
He came out full of fight, bucking like a demon, swiveling his hips, hooking left and right with his short, blunted horns, fighting like mad to unseat the rider who clung to the rigging behind his hump.
On Thursday, You Take the Cake, after finishing third in a low-level sprint, fell to the ground and unseated her rider, Wilmer Garcia.
Strip the netting under the mattresses. Braid it together, tie it to the window bars, and twist. The torque will unseat at least one of the bars pretty easily.
As his front wheel clips a tree the bike breaks into a jarring 180 degree spin violently unseating the rider.
The Fountain of Youth race had a spill coming into the stretch when High Oak and Galt clipped heels, unseating both jockeys and sending both horses to the ground.
gloss: To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a political one; to dethrone.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: After having lost her seat to a Tory, she succeeded in unseating him in the next general election.
India has recently unseated China as the world’s most populous country.
And thus thoſe Forts vvhich vvere erected to defend the Crovvne, firſt offended the King, ſome fevv vvhereof as he recouered, he flatted to the ground, and vviſhed the other no higher vvalls; ſtill ſvvearing by Gods Birth (his vſuall Oath) hee vvould not ſlightly bee vnſeated of his Crovvne, and vvondring vvhat ſhould mooue them, vvho had ſo readilie aduanced him, ſo ſpeedily to vnſtate him.
But notvvithſtanding all theſe endeavours of theirs, the nine aforementioned VVorthies are reſolved not to part ſo tamely from their Commands, but having made their party as ſtrong as they could, reſolved next morning to unſeat the Parliament once more; […]
We carried through our man with great eclat, though protests were taken by the other candidate against so many of our votes, that, had one third of the exceptions held good, it was clear the Governor must be unseated.
As a result, the anti-Bismarck circles are encouraged in their hope of at length unseating the everlasting chancellor.
He's [Héctor Neris's] not Philadelphia's closer yet, but it's only a matter of time until he unseats Jeanmar Gomez.
In securing the top spot, the song unseats Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's hit WAP, a not-safe-for-work track that held No 1 for two weeks.
If Democratic nominee Joe Biden unseats Mr [Donald] Trump, but fails to gain the Senate, he could be left unable to pass legislation important to his presidency – on issues such as healthcare, climate change and immigration.
[Lael] Brainard, the only Democrat on the Fed's board, was once the top contender to unseat Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell.
Newly elected Conservative Mayor of Bedford Tom Wootton has promised to "hold East West Rail to account" over the sale of homes along the route. Wootton, who won the election on May 7 after unseating his LibDem predecessor by 145 votes, centred his campaign on his opposition to EWR's 'northern route' to Cambridge, which was announced as the preferred one after the election […]
gloss: To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, to overturn.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The Michelson-Morley experiment prompted scientists to unseat their belief in the luminiferous aether.
Printed newspapers are gradually being unseated by digital publications.
Eleanor sank upon his bosom, and sobbed as if her heart were bursting with its transport; and poor Susan laughed and wept alternately, till Mr. Blandley, who by this time had heard of the occurrence and reached the court-room, was fearful that her reason would be totally unseated.
[…] I pray thee, ask no more; for, like my poor mother, I feel as if the probing of the wound would half unseat my reason.
"I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. / "God knows I have!—a trouble which is enough to unseat my reason, so sudden and so terrible is it.[…]"
Robespierre concluded that Danton and Desmoulins were bent on unseating and putting an end to the Committee. He concluded that he would never be safe as long as these old friends of his were alive.
Despite all the various attempts to unseat the keyboard, it has proven remarkably resilient, because computers are still largely vehicles for the written word, and half that battle is writing and editing.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is trying to put together a national sports network to rival ESPN, a daunting task, but then, the company does have a history of unseating cable rivals.
It was harrowing to watch him change in these ways, and it completely unseated my view that everyone has a "fixed" personality. My father's behaviour showed, shockingly, that personality is just a function, or malfunction, of neurology.
If search bots make enough errors, then, rather than increasing trust with their conversational ability, they have the potential to unseat users' perceptions of search engines as impartial arbiters of truth, [Aleksandra] Urman says.
gloss: To upset the composure of (someone); to astound, to shock, to unsettle.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The Matrix (1999) utterly unseated audiences around the world with its mind-blowing plot twist.
I was somewhat unseated by the strange noises outside my window.
"Heart up, heart up, my boy!" he exclaimed. "The horrors of war must not unseat a soldier thus"—but the other interrupted him, muttering huskily: / "You did not see—not recognise?" and as he spoke the astonishment on his face was accompanied by a look of almost awestruck unbelief.
Thereafter he held his peace, protesting not at all when it was generally agreed that the collapse of certain squalid brick houses in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, and the consequent death of many brave officers, had unseated his nervous equilibrium.
No giant roast, no towering ham or sinewy wild fowl, can unseat an expert carver armed with a keen weapon.
Your telegram rather unseated me. I was under the impression that if I found a bargain in a place to stay, you would still come.
Over the red wine, kindly, suddenly: 'Of course, you wrote it tongue-in-cheek, didn't you?' / From him, this unseated me. 'N-no, I didn't.'
Sensing the sincerity in the question and wanting to be courteous, but overwhelmed by trying to put the richness I had always been blessed with "down there" into quick words, I could only mumble something about yes, there's a beautiful river down there, although the question so unseated me I'm not sure what I said.
Poor dear couldn't speak, could barely lift a finger. Utterly unseated he was.
In this manner, I underwent a series of profound spiritual experiences that utterly unseated me and filled my consciousness with a dimension of knowledge I never knew existed.
But, as my psychiatrist says, when my ego and super ego kicked in, I became a balanced person. Until she unseated me repeatedly.
I'm not making this easy for him, but I feel he's put me on the back foot by turning up at my workplace unannounced. Also, his appearance has undeniably unseated me, sending my mind into orbit about what's behind it.
As a banker from a banking family with a tradition founded on trust and respectability that goes back three hundred years, I was unseated by her threats.
Now what was I supposed to say? She had completely unseated me.
Caitlin was suddenly all questions. Usually good at keeping her composure, she was completely unseated by this.
Ahead of the film's July 1 premiere, Collider had the opportunity to speak with [Sope] Dìrísù about starring in the Regency-era romance feature — he reprises his role from the short film that was made in 2019, also directed by [Emma Holly] Jones — and how he approached playing a character with a pragmatic approach to love who then finds himself thoroughly unseated by it by the end of the story.
Leter her stare if she wanted, the gaze of a woman had never unseated me. Only I was sure this particular woman was about to change that.
"Thomasin [McKenzie] unseated me everyday^([sic]) with the depth of her talent," [Anne] Hathaway says. She and McKenzie got to know each other a bit before filming, establishing a dynamic which intriguingly mirrored the one we see in the movie.
gloss: To come off or out of a seat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We replaced the screws, since the old ones unseated too easily.
When the feed-valve unseats, air begins to enter the train line and the black hand moves up; […]
When the pump plunger is moved upward, the flat on top of the cup unseats from the flat on the plunger head and allows free movement of fuel through the inside of the cup into the bottom of the pump well.
Pull the trigger and the end or needle portion of a spring-loaded shaft unseats from an opening to allow liquid or air to pass through.
Using a screwdriver from the trunk of the Camaro, he opened the housing. The short screws unseated quickly and he set aside the lid.
Synonyms: deseat
Related words: beseat
reseat
Derived words: unseatable
unseated
unseater
unseating
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