disenthrone

1. (figuratively) To remove (something) from a position of power or paramount importance.Examples: "1844, Benjamin Disraeli, speech given at the Manchester Athenæum Grand Soirée, 3 October, 1844, in Addresses Delivered by Lord John Manners […] B. Disraeli […] G. Sydney Smythe, London: Hayward and Adam, 1845, p. 18, As civilization has gradually progressed it has equalised the physical qualities of man. Instead of the strong arm it is the strong head that is now the moving principle of society. You have disenthroned Force, and placed on her high seat Intelligence […]"; "No other than these simple words were possible to her; and even these were too much for her in a state of emotion where her proud secrecy was disenthroned: as the child-like sentences fell from her lips they re-acted on her like a picture of her own helplessness, and she could not check the sob which sent the large tears to her eyes."; "Marxism-Leninism will have to be disenthroned as party orthodoxy from which it is heretical to deviate […]"figuratively