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overthrow
[ verb oh-ver-throh; noun oh-ver-throh ]
verb (used with object)
- to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish:
to overthrow a tyrant.
Synonyms: ,
- to put an end to by force, as a government or institution.
- to throw or knock down; overturn; topple:
The heavy winds overthrew numerous telephone poles and trees.
- to knock down and demolish.
Synonyms: , ,
- to throw (something) too far.
- Baseball. (of a pitcher) to throw too hard, often affecting control or straining the arm.
- Archaic. to destroy the sound condition of (the mind).
verb (used without object)
- to throw too far:
If I hadn't overthrown, it would have been a sure putout.
noun
- the act of overthrowing; state or condition of being overthrown.
- deposition from power.
- defeat; destruction; ruin.
Synonyms:
overthrow
verb
- tr to effect the downfall or destruction of (a ruler, institution, etc), esp by force
- tr to throw or turn over
- tr to throw (something, esp a ball) too far
noun
- an act of overthrowing
- downfall; destruction
- cricket
- a ball thrown back too far by a fielder
- a run scored because of this
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 辞顎卾别谤路迟丑谤辞飞顎侥谤 noun
- 辫谤别路辞顎僾别谤路迟丑谤辞飞顎 noun
- 辫谤别顎卭路惫别谤路迟丑谤辞飞顎 verb (used with object) preoverthrew preoverthrown preoverthrowing
- 耻苍顎卭路惫别谤路迟丑谤辞飞苍顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of overthrow1
Example Sentences
"I can hear the people's prayers, cries, and cries. We will overthrow the dictatorship," they sing in unison.
She compared him with the conservative Mexicans who, in the 1850s, invited the French to help overthrow the liberal government of President Benito Juarez.
Other bodies no longer subject to asset freezes include a number of media organisations and Syria's intelligence agencies, although these were dissolved after the overthrow of Assad.
Burkina Faso's military government has said it foiled a "major plot" to overthrow junta leader Capt Ibrahim Traor茅, with the army alleging the plotters were based in neighbouring Ivory Coast.
He also had differences with fellow Jesuits who believed Bergoglio lacked interest in liberation theology - that synthesis of Christian thought and Marxist sociology which sought to overthrow injustice.
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