Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove the queen bee from (a colony).
- To divest of the dignity of queen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To divest of the rank or authority of queen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
divest of therank orauthority ofqueen .
Etymologies
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un- + queen
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Examples
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Painful as it was to me to know myself unaffected by it, it was exquisite grief to me to have her unqueen herself before my eyes.
The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Anne's enemies either invented stories against her, or made the worst of some foolish, unlady-like, and unqueen-like things she had said and done, so that the king thought she wished for his death.
Young Folks' History of England Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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