Definition of overthrow

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Overthrow (v. t.) To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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Anarchist :: Anarchist (n.) An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.
Subversionary :: Subversion (n.) The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution..
Overturn :: Overturn (n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties..
Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..
Refutation :: Refutation (n.) The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head..
Valid :: Valid (a.) Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage..
Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (v. t.) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
Afflict :: Afflict (v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed..
Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment..
Fall :: Fall (n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
Overturn :: Overturn (v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
Evert :: Evert (v. t.) To overthrow; to subvert.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.
Subvertible :: Subverter (n.) One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower..
Treason :: Treason (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice..
Defeat :: Defeat (v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow..
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