All overthrow synonyms
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O o verb overthrow
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- disestablish — to deprive of the character of being established; cancel; abolish.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- weed — Thurlow [thur-loh] /ˈθɜr loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1797–1882, U.S. journalist and politician.
- ko'd — a knockout in boxing.
- hold off — 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.
- floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
- kos — a unit of land distance of various lengths from 1 to 3 miles (1.6 to 4.8 km).
- burn down — If a building burns down or if someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.
- cleaned out — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- oppress — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- flip-flopping — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
- outplay — to play better than.
- disconfirm — to prove to be invalid.
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- disannul — to annul utterly; make void: to disannul a contract.
- circumduct — (obsolete) To lead about or astray.
- duelling — a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
- dueling — Present participle of duel.
- drum out — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- foraying — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- whelm — to submerge; engulf.
- beat off — to drive back; repel
- heave-ho — an act of rejection, dismissal, or forcible ejection: The bartender gave the noisy drunk the old heave-ho.
- overcome — to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
noun overthrow
- abolition — The abolition of something such as a system or practice is its formal ending.
- crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
- experimenter — A person who experiments.
- liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
- heave ho — an act or effort of heaving.
- disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
- insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
- licking — a stroke of the tongue over something.
- invalidation — to render invalid; discredit.
- impeachment — the impeaching of a public official before an appropriate tribunal.
- downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
- insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- coup — When there is a coup, a group of people seize power in a country.
- coup d'état — When there is a coup d'état, a group of people seize power in a country.
- quietus — a finishing stroke; anything that effectually ends or settles: Having given a quietus to the argument, she left.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- insolvency — the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.
- nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
- downs — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.