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In some senses, decrown is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To deprive of a crown; to discrown.
the Popes […] authority to decrowne Kings
To decoronate (a tooth).
To remove the crown of a pineapple, strawberry, etc.
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.