unhorse
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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
D'Artagnan furiously swings out on a rope to unhorse an adversary, only to swing right past both horse and rider and come down in a pool of mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither was overly eager for the tougher assignment of trying to unhorse Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 72.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had been brought up in 1936, when it was obvious from the outset that no Republican could hope to unhorse Franklin Roosevelt.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Fred gives that whistle he will unhorse any rider who is on his back.
From Raiding with Morgan by Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn
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
The tutor's cheeks, swelling with anger, almost unhorsed the small spectacles saddling his nose.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
So, consider how the unhorsing of Cantor may strike some other Republicans.
From Washington Post
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
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
He was always getting himself into trouble—as, for instance, by unhorsing the Orkneys at Westminster—through underestimating the wickedness of the world.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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