decrown
verbUK /diːˈkɹaʊn/
Etymology From de- + crown, or French découronner.
1
To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
- the Popes […] authority to decrowne Kings1630, Thomas Adams, “The Contagion of Sinne”, in The Workes of Thomas Adams:
3
To remove the crown of a pineapple, strawberry, etc.
4
Figuratively To deprive of supremacy or exaltedness.
- Laughter for laughter's sake and the allied mocking of social values and decrowning of all dogmatic forms of authority this entails.2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 70: