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Definition of Overthrowed

Overthrow
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.
Overthrow
Overthrow O"ver*throw`, n. 1. The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin. Your sudden overthrow much rueth me. --Spenser.

Meaning of Overthrowed from wikipedia

- Look up overthrow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Overthrow may refer to: Overthrow, a change in government, often achieved by force or through a...
- 1898. The 1993 Apology Resolution by the US Congress concedes that "the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active parti****tion of agents...
- engaged in a succession war with Seunachandra II. He was eventually overthrowed and succeed by Seunachandra II. According to Hemadri, Vesugi II was succeeded...
- doubtful loyalty. Dartmouth suspected Berkeley and Grafton of plotting to overthrow him; to monitor them, he placed their ships next to his and minimised...
- In cricket, an overthrow (sometimes called a buzzer) is an additional run scored by a batter as a result of the ball not being collected by a fielder...
- Indonesia's transition to the New Order in the mid-1960s ousted the country's first president, ****rno, after 22 years in the position. One of the most...
- sometimes referred to as a silent coup or a bloodless coup, is an illegal overthrow of a government, but unlike a regular coup d'état it is achieved without...
- Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq is a book published in 2006 by New York Times foreign correspondent and author Stephen...
- The Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević began in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after the general election on 24 September 2000 and culminated in the...
- Elenchos kai anatropē tēs pseudōnymou gnōseōs, "On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis"), sometimes referred to by its Latin title Adversus...