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Definition of Overthrown

Overthrown
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 Overthrown from wikipedia

- and the ancient sources themselves disagree on when the monarchy was overthrown and how old the resulting republic was. The most well-known date for the...
- Hawaii. On January 17, 1893, the native monarch, Queen Lili'uokalani, was overthrown. Hawaii was initially reconstituted as an independent republic, but the...
- Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End...
- Syracuse 616 Miletus is sieged by Lydia 615 Leontini is overthrown by Panaetius 612 Miletus is overthrown by Thrasybulos 610 Panticapaeum (modern city Kerch)...
- Scala 1282–1387 Ghibelline Overthrown by a Visconti-backed revolt in 1387.  Treviso Da Camino 1283–1312 Guelph Overthrown in a conspiracy in 1312.  Padua...
- Federal Military Government of Nigeria, serving for six months before being overthrown and ********inated in the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup. Aguiyi-Ironsi was...
- his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age until he was overthrown by his son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. According to Plato, however...
- contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. The phrase also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually...
- Yugoslavia signed the Tripartite Pact; however, the Yugoslav government was overthrown two days later by pro-British nationalists. Germany and Italy responded...
- by his son Ali Bongo. Ali Bongo ruled from 2009 until 2023 when he was overthrown by his cousin Brice Oligui Nguema in a coup. Pascaline Bongo Ondimba is...