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Overthrew
Overthrow O`ver*throw", v. t. [imp. Overthrew; p. p. Overthrown; p. pr. & vb. n. Overthrowing.] 1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. --Dryden. [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion. --Shak. Syn: To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin; subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish; beat; rout.

Meaning of Overthrew from wikipedia

- Nasrullah Khan overthrew Habibullah Khan. February 28, 1919: Amanullah Khan overthrew Nasrullah Khan. January 17, 1929: Habibullah Kalakani overthrew Inayatullah...
- of Silla overthrew King Minae and installed King Sinmu on the throne. 1010, Goryeo: General Kang Cho of Goryeo staged a coup that overthrew King Mokjong...
- minister under Charles X, just before the July Revolution in 1830 that overthrew the senior line of the House of Bourbon. Born in Versailles, Jules was...
- Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president, Rómulo Gallegos, who had been elected in the 1947...
- president. Lieutenant-General Joseph Arthur Ankrah led a coup d'état which overthrew President Nkrumah and his government, all political parties and Parliament...
- Somali Armed Forces. At the end of 2006, a US-backed Ethiopian invasion overthrew the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), leading to the installation of the TFG...
- I of Libya in 1951. The 1969 Libyan revolution led by Muammar Gaddafi overthrew him, ending the Libyan monarchy. The movement remained active despite...
- polarization and turmoil, which culminated in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état that overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically elected left-wing government. This was...
- organization and the Military Union with the aid of the Bulgarian Army. It overthrew the government of the wide Po****r Bloc coalition and replaced it with...
- the Meiji oligarchy, who overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration, the leaders of the samurai who overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate...