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overthrowing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overthrow \O`ver*throw"\, v. t. [imp. Overthrew; p. p. Overthrown; p. pr. & vb. n. Overthrowing.]
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To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
His wife overthrew the table.
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To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy; as, to overthrow a government.
When the walls of Thebes he overthrew.
--Dryden.[Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.
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(Baseball) To throw (a baseball) beyond; to throw too high and too far; to overshoot[1]; as, the shortstop overthrew the first baseman.
Syn: To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin; subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish; beat; rout.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of overthrow English)
Usage examples of "overthrowing".
A Dearth of Legal Obstacles to Assassination A Plethora of Practical Problems What About Overthrowing Saddam in a Coup?
Iraqi people were waiting to rise up against Saddam and would do so if the United States demonstrated that it was serious about overthrowing him.
The Agency succeeded in overthrowing Muhammad Mossadeq in Iran, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam, and Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala.
Officials and royal family members from these countries continue to stress that they believe that Saddam is a great enough long-term threat to them that they are willing to keep control of their own populations for some period of time to make overthrowing him possible, but they do not want to have to do so for one day longer than is absolutely necessary.
It the United States were to launch a full-scale invasion of Iraq with the goal of overthrowing his regime, Saddam would have no incentives for restraint and would undoubtedly lash out at us with everything he had.
The proposed communist conference would consequently be a congress of radical political Socialists to consider the question of discontinuing the use of the ballot and adopting the methods used by the Russian communists in the past in overthrowing capitalist society.
Socialist Party of America, ever since its birth, has been reviling and attacking the Government of the United States with a view to overthrowing and destroying it.
The members of these locals and branches frequently meet to devise means for spreading the doctrines of Karl Marx and for overthrowing the government of our country.
It was very distressed to learn that the bureaucracy it had served had become the tool of a dictatorship, and was completely in favor of overthrowing the Protector, provided that it could be done with very little bloodshed.
Admiral, about overthrowing the most powerful single political and military establishment ever to exist.
Then they considered at leisure different points and in general made a solemn compact for securing sovereignty and overthrowing enemies.
Jayther had accepted the challenge of overthrowing the Old Empire, losing sleep for weeks until he figured out how to solve the problem.
His nobles had never forgiven him for overthrowing their unbounded power, in 1772, and the war against Russia, which he began without the assent of the states, was the signal for revolt.
He had left behind him, on his departure from the Tuilleries, a declaration, in which he protested against the decrees of the national assembly which he had sanctioned, and manifested his intention of overthrowing the new order of things.
Pichegru, acting with the royalist agents, corresponded with Moreau, whom Buonaparte had recently slighted, and entered into a plot with him for overthrowing the consular government.