All overthrow synonyms
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O o verb overthrow
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- blot out — If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
- knock down — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- counter check — a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
- blow sky-high — to destroy completely
- hold in — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- weeded — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
- countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
- downing — a downward movement; descent.
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- evert — Turn (a structure or organ) outward or inside out.
- get the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- creamed — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- jousting — a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
- burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
- demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
- defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
- downed — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- koing — a knockout in boxing.
- confute — to prove (a person or thing) wrong, invalid, or mistaken; disprove
- oust — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
- clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- everted — Simple past tense and past participle of evert.
- clean out — If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- conquer — If one country or group of people conquers another, they take complete control of their land.
- ko — a knockout in boxing.
- bring to heel — (Transitive Verb) IDI To compel someone to obey; to force someone into a submissive condition.
- burked — to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence.
- hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- mow down — to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
noun overthrow
- debacle — A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
- whaling — the work or industry of capturing and rendering whales; whale fishing.
- frondeur — a rebel; rioter.
- hole in one — ace (def 8a).
- insuccess — (archaic) Lack of success.
- downthrow — a throwing down or being thrown down; overthrow.
- wrecker — a person or thing that wrecks.
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- winnings — Plural form of winning.
- obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
- experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
- nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- ouster — expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied: The opposition called for the ouster of the cabinet minister.