defrock

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of DEFROCK

to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne) <the movie's director was defrocked for going way over budget>

Synonyms defrock, deprive, dethrone, displace, oust, uncrown, unmake, unseat, unthrone

Related Words can, cashier, discharge, dismiss, fire, muster out, remove, retire, sack; overthrow, subvert, supplant, topple, usurp; banish, boot (out), bounce, cast out, chase, drum (out), eject, expel, extrude, rout, run off, throw out

Near Antonyms baptize, inaugurate, induct, initiate, install, instate, invest; appoint, designate, elect

Antonyms crown, enthrone, throne

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