No. 10,897 in Spanish
destronar
To dethrone.
In a sentence
El ejército intentó destronar al rey en el siglo XVIII.
The army tried to dethrone the king in the 18th century.
In this sentence, 'destronar' is used in its literal sense, meaning to remove someone from a royal or high official position of power.
La nueva teoría científica busca destronar ideas antiguas.
The new scientific theory seeks to unseat old ideas.
Here, 'destronar' is used metaphorically to describe replacing established concepts or beliefs with new ones.
El joven atleta logró destronar al campeón en la competición.
The young athlete managed to dethrone the champion in the competition.
In this example, 'destronar' is applied to a figurative context where the word represents surpassing or defeating someone in a position of high standing in a nonpolitical or formal competition.
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