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overthrow🔊

To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.

📑 Synonyms: overturn oust subvert
💬 Quotations
Wounded and overthrown, the Britons continued their resistance, clung round the legs of the Norman steeds, and cumbered their advance; while their brethren, thrusting with pikes, proved every joint and crevice of the plate and mail, or grappling with the men-at-arms, strove to pull them from their horses by main force, or beat them down with their bills and Welch hooks.

(now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.

A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force; usurpation.

(archaic, rare) An act of throwing something to the ground; an overturning.

To throw (something) so that it goes too far.

(sports) A throw that goes too far.

(cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.

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