unhorse
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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
Shiniest Republican statewide hopeful: Newcomer William B. Bantz, 40, burly, personable former U.S. district attorney from Spokane, his party's nominee to unhorse Democrat Senator Henry M. Jackson.
From Time Magazine Archive
The proper course of action is not simply to unhorse a single person in an act of fury but to re-create the country, to give it a democratic framework.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a student worries the class with too earnest an exposition of a tense social problem, Professor Odum likes to unhorse him by growling Odumishly: "What of it?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The object of the young Irishman was to unhorse, or rather un-camel, his antagonist, and get him to the ground.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
This physical expansion brought with it the soaring costs that have unhorsed so many other bricks-and-mortar retailers.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2019
This came after the outgoing speaker had already been unhorsed for his own ethical failings.
From Fox News ● Feb. 6, 2019
This is a group dedicated to rehabilitating the reputation of a king they say was much maligned by Shakespeare and supporters of Henry Tudor, who killed Richard after he was unhorsed in battle.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2015
They unhorsed knights who then lay helplessly on the ground in their heavy armor.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Renly was unhorsed so violently that he seemed to fly backward off his charger, legs in the air.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
So, consider how the unhorsing of Cantor may strike some other Republicans.
From Washington Post
There was even talk of unhorsing Old Guardsman Watson as Republican Leader and putting Senator McNary into his place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the fall of 1946 they headed a veterans' group that came within a lance-tip of unhorsing the political boss, Judge Cy Bond.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet he acquitted himself well, unhorsing Horas Redwyne in his first joust and one of the Freys in his second.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
