unqueen

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verb

To divest of the rank or authority of queen.

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Meanings

verbunqueen (third-person singular simple present unqueens, present participle unqueening, simple past and past participle unqueened)

present singular third person unqueens · participle present unqueening · participle past unqueened · past unqueened

  1. transitiveTo divest of the rank or authority of queen.

    When I am dead, good Wench, / Let me be vs’d with Honor; ſtrew me ouer / With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know / I was a chaſte Wife, to my Graue: Embalme me, / Then lay me forth (although vnqueen’d) yet like / A Queene, and Daughter to a King enterre me.

    1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 226, column 2
  2. agricultureto remove the queen bee

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
dethrone

Origin

From un- + queen.

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APA

unqueen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unqueen

MLA

“unqueen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unqueen. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unqueen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unqueen.

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