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Oust from power
Answer for the clue "Oust from power ", 6 letters:
topple
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Word definitions for topple in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something 2 to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES overthrow/topple a regime (= remove it from power ) ▪ In 1979, Tanzanian forces overthrew the regime of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB off ▪ To Republican fury, he has refused to topple ...
Usage examples of topple.
The ambulance hit the front third of the van with a sickening thud, spinning it around like a toy and toppling it over.
When Drizzt put the barghest off balance, Kempfana willingly toppled, meaning to crush the wiry little elf.
The incoming barrage savagely pounded the droids until they toppled over to loudly crash onto the tattered kiosk.
Six of them toppled immediately: masses of twitching, disorganized, heterogeneous matter that ruined the floor wherever they fell, warping and buckling it with blitter scars.
This was surely powerful magic, for the boomerang struck hard against the small head of the kangaroo, toppling her to the ground, stunned.
The wreckage of the rocket was a hot bright point, toppling down its bottomless throat.
Just push that humus over it, and topple that sandstone slab over that, scatter a few handfuls of dead leaves and trash around.
Then the mainmast tottered, toppled, and crashed down squarely on the deck of the first galley.
Traces of an old roost: a scattering of frayed butts, toppled beer cans, empty matchbooks, an accumulation of names, dates, maledictions scratched into the supporting steelwork.
Fallen One toppled the Regency, Martel was an apprentice newsie who had just fled the Grand Duke.
The doors rebounded, popped open, and the overfull trash basket toppled, scattering its contents, knocking the cleansers and the can of oven cleaner onto the floor with a clatter.
They rose up and Todd was able to topple himself inward like a gross crab and tumble onto the pedway walk.
On the glass-topped table separating them, a pile of polystyrene beefburger cartons, overflowing ashtrays and toppled beer cans bore witness to an evening of over-indulgence that had rendered the builder and his girlfriend bloated, tipsy and spoiling for a fight.
Another surge of force moaned through the room, awakening many small radiances in its wake, and in their fading flashes Craer saw the sideboard toppling, and Hawkril leaping away.
He glanced at two stone heads, crashing through the trees, and then back at the sorceress, clearly wondering if slaying the Lady of Jewels would bring both statues toppling into ruin.