Depose

Often the people do not wish to depose a tyrant, often they cannot not.

The communists who helped depose the Shah were purged by the Ayatollahs in the 1980s.

Discontented officers in the army and navy rallied to this idea, and a conspiracy was organized to depose the emperor and declare a republic.

Delay, deny, and depose.

additional mud deposed upon it

A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.

a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed

The 1840s saw a further escalation, with new laws treating most slave ships captured as pirates, and a number of military expeditions being mounted to destroy slaving centres on the African coast and depose, or even kill, remaining local kings and chiefs who had refused to end slavery in their territory.

After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.

Depose him in the justice of his cause.