discrown means to remove the crown from; thus, to deprive of royal status. It carries an Arena rating of 1517, earned across 60 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, discrown ranks #2,021 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #3,852 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #3,890 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #4,104 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words.
Why “discrown” is a great word
DISCROWN — [Verb] To remove the crown from, thus to deprive of royal status or authority; to dethrone. From the English prefix dis- (expressing removal or reversal) + crown (the symbol of royal authority). First recorded in use 1580–90. Unlike "dethrone," which focuses on expulsion from a seat of power, or "depose," a broad legalistic stripping of office, to discrown is the definitive, symbolic violence against the icon itself. It is the cold prising of gold from a sweating brow, the hollow clatter of metal on marble, and the sudden, weightless chill upon a monarch's temples—a ceremony of subtraction that makes a king a man again.
Etymology
From dis- + crown.
verb
- To remove the crown from; thus, to deprive of royal status.e.g.“He discrowned, in rapid succession, one after another of the United States' most, accomplished and admirable commanders.” — 1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee:
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