Overthrow
[əʊvə'θrəʊ] or [,ovɚ'θro]
Definition
(noun.) the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force).
(verb.) cause the downfall of; of rulers; 'The Czar was overthrown'; 'subvert the ruling class'.
Inputed by Katherine--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
(v. t.) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
(n.) The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
(n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head.
(n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.
Editor: Seth
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Overturn, upset, overset, subvert, prostrate, level, fell, throw down, beat down.[2]. Demolish, destroy, ruin.[3]. Vanquish, conquer, defeat, worst, overcome, master, overpower, overbear, overwhelm, subjugate, crush, discomfit, beat, rout, foil.
n. [1]. Subversion, prostration.[2]. Destruction, demolition, ruin, shipwreck.[3]. Defeat, discomfiture, rout.
Typist: Psyche
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Destroy, subvert, upset, overturn, ruin, demolish, defeat, rout, overcome,discomfit, invert, overset, reverse
ANT:Restore, reinstate, construct, regenerate, redintegrate, revive, reedify
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Definition
v.t. to throw down: to upset: to bring to an end: to demolish: to defeat utterly.—ns. O′verthrow act of overthrowing or state of being overthrown: ruin: defeat: a throwing of a ball beyond the player; O′verthrower.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthrow of slavery, with less than twenty men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An essential condition of the peace he sought through the overthrow of German imperialism was, he declared, to be this federal organ. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Kings and Jacobins were at one, when it came to the question of his overthrow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Most of these things that distress you, you can avoid; most of these things that dominate you, you can overthrow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fighting viciously every readjustment which a nation demands, they make their own overthrow inevitable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The usual diligence and order of the Counting-house at the Works were overthrown. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The path of scientific progress is strewn with the ruins of overthrown hypotheses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There had been a brief all-German parliament at Frankfort in 1848, which was overthrown in 1849 by the Prussian monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The cables are then passed over towers, on which they are supported in movable saddles, so that the towers are not overthrown by the strain on the cables. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the jar of her whole being, Pity was overthrown. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No doubt what gave special zest to his study of the alkalis was the hope of overthrowing the doctrine of French chemists that oxygen was the e ssential element of every acid. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This comes nearer to overthrowing the doctrine of the conservation of energy, said he, than anything I ever saw. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As on the former occasion he overthrew the cauldron before leaping, sinuous and catlike, into the lower branches of the forest giant. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When unopposed they spread their ravages wide; in cases of danger they clustered, and by dint of numbers overthrew their weak and despairing foes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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