unhorse

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Unseating Bush was daunting, as it is to unhorse any incumbent president.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2019

Even so, Johnson may prove no easier to unhorse in 1968 than Harry Truman was 20 years earlier when threatened by an overconfident G.O.P.

From Time Magazine Archive

The proper course of action is not simply to unhorse a single person in an act of fury but to re-create the country, to give it a democratic framework.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inevitably, some Administration forces thought that McCarthy's move to unhorse Johnson might, in fact, confirm everyone's faith in American political fourflushing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unexpected sheer did not unhorse her rider, but the mare went down in a helpless sprawl over the great obstacle in her path, and the girlish figure in the saddle went with her.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various