(v. t.) To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a democratic Myanmar , the royal family – nearly lost after Thibaw was dethroned in the 19th century – think it might finally be time for a revival.
(2) He was a no-nonsense fighter, the man that almost dethroned one of the greatest fighters in the world, Muhammad Ali.
(3) Two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself 'The Greatest' and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle'; dethroning Leon Spinks in 1978 to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time.
(4) Barcelona dethroned as Manchester City reach Champions League semis – Football Weekly Extra Read more Krueger said he enjoyed a positive relationship with Koeman, who has impressed since replacing Pochettino, but stressed any new deal needed to be right for both parties.
(5) However, a surge in the popularity of regional newspaper websites owned by rivals has seen Johnston Press dethroned as the online traffic market leader.
(6) As Richard II nears dethronement, he attains a mastery of language that stuns the audience.
(7) Ten years into his papacy, Shenouda had famously fallen out with President Anwar Sadat ; in September 1981 he was summarily dethroned and banished to an ancient desert monastery.
(8) And as the dethroned champions wandered off at the finish they were probably happy to know that after this week's trip to the US to play Chelsea twice, a disappointing season can be left behind.
(9) It was elegance with a serrated edge, as the Spurs recovered from a slapdash start to win 104-87 in a clinical, yet feverish, display that underlined their superiority and dethroned the reigning NBA champions, denying Miami their third title in three years.
(10) There’s another Gypsy world champion.” Billy Joe Saunders outsmarts Andy Lee to win WBO middleweight title Read more He had just dethroned his fellow Traveller Andy Lee over 12 tense rounds, decking him twice in the third, but he was aware, too, that the media have been hunting down every squeak and indiscretion of the first member of their community to win a world heavyweight title, Tyson Fury.
(11) This new data seem to warrant the fiability of the Washio flap, however the latter cannot dethrone the Converse flap, king flap of medio-facial reconstructions.
(12) Ibn Saud had many wives, and dozens of children, and was succeeded by his eldest living son, Saud, who had even more wives, and many children, but who was dethroned and forced into exile by his younger brother Faisal, who reigned from 1964 to 1975.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In fact, that month it was the most popular YouTube channel of any category, dethroning gamer PewDiePie – 352m views that month – who usually tops the rankings by some distance.
(14) When Margaret Thatcher was dethroned, her more passionate supporters were embittered: but their vengeance took many years to play out.
(15) For most people, what follows is a long process of dethronement, as ‘His Majesty the Child’ confronts the ever more obvious and humbling truth.
(16) Whether or not the dethroned and ageing champion, notoriously a mob stooge, debt collector and ex-con, showed proper enthusiasm for getting up after Ali clipped him on the chin in the first round of their rematch in Lewiston, Maine, in 1965, is doubtful.
(17) Black Lives Matter was challenging the structural racism of the entire political system, including how it served black politicians, and blacklivesmatter.com described Jackson as “clearly dethroned from a place of either honour or leadership or relevance”.
(18) Howard Sykes, the dethroned Lib Dem council leader in Oldham, gave a weary verdict at 5.30am.
(19) The Melissa McCarthy-led comedy The Boss dethroned Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to take the No 1 spot at the US box office last weekend with an estimated opening of $23.48m (£16.53m).
(20) "Not since Wallis Simpson dethroned a king and moved to Nassau has an American femme fatale so captivated the Bahamian public and dominated local politics than Anna Nicole Smith did during her time on the island," according to a leaked memo titled "Hurricane Anna Nicole wreaks havoc in the Bahamas" .
Overthrow
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
(v. t.) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
(n.) The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
(n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head.
(n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
(2) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
(3) Every now and again a leader would promise to reform the system, but it survived, even after upheavals as great as that represented by the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
(4) What goes on in The Handmaid’s Tale [the overthrow of the US government by a theocratic dictatorship that suppresses the rights of women] is actually confined to what used to be the United States.
(5) The overthrow of the Greek government so that (German finance minister Wolfgang) Schaüble could claim Tsipras’s head as a trophy.
(6) Syria’s five-year conflict has taken on an ethnic dimension, with Kurdish groups carving out their own regions and periodically battling groups from Syria’s Arab majority, whose priority is to overthrow Assad.
(7) Earlier this primary season, Tea Party-aligned candidates lost a series of high-profile battles, including in Georgia, North Carolina and Kentucky, where there was a failed attempt to overthrow the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell.
(8) Sunday's exodus further partitions the country, a process that has been under way since January, when a Muslim rebel government gave up power nearly a year after overthrowing the president of a decade.
(9) For those who believed that overthrowing communism would bring immediate prosperity and right the wrongs of the past, the fact that they were still poor while communist officials profited from the transition made it seem like the old order had not really been overthrown.
(10) This is certainly not what Libya was meant to become after the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
(11) The US had previously signalled its tacit support for the military's actions by giving the go-ahead for the jets' delivery , and by avoiding terming Morsi's overthrow as a coup.
(12) The defeated candidate in last month's tense presidential election in Sri Lanka , General Sarath Fonseka, was arrested today at his office in Colombo and is to be charged with attempting a military coup to overthrow the government.
(13) In the meantime, Washington is expanding its military presence where it has control (for example, Honduras), and is ready to support the overthrow of left governments when the opportunity arises ( Honduras in 2009 , and Paraguay last year ).
(14) Richard Sewell's diary reveals that he and New Zealand ambassador Chris Beeby were closely involved with the ambitious plot to fly the US diplomats to safety at a time when anti-American rhetoric was at an all-time high following the overthrow of the Shah and Washington's decision to harbour its dying ally.
(15) But I’m glad it’s finally happened.” Malcolm Turnbull promises new style of leadership after overthrowing Abbott Read more It’s a new day in Australia, with a new prime minister-elect .
(16) Jang Song-thaek, previously one of the country's most powerful men, was accused of everything from plotting to overthrow the state to instigating disastrous currency reforms and dishing out pornography in the report from official news agency KCNA.
(17) Sabbahi's declaration has already split the leadership of Tamarod, the high-profile protest movement that led calls for Mohamed Morsi's overthrow last summer.
(18) Hundreds of policemen and soldiers have been killed during a low-level insurgency that has continued since the overthrow of ex-president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
(19) A Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition has planned nationwide protests after Friday prayers as part of their near-daily demonstrations against the overthrow of Morsi and the recent vote on the country's rewritten constitution.
(20) The phrase "terrors of the earth" is Arthur Schlesinger's, in his quasi-official biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility to conduct the terrorist war, and informed the CIA that the Cuban problem carries "the top priority in the United States Government – all else is secondary – no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared" in the effort to overthrow the Castro regime.