(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.
Overthrown
Definition:
(p. p.) of Overthrow
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) Yanukovych: The time has come for me to say that I intend to continue the fight for the future of Ukraine... Nobody has overthrown me February 28, 2014 1.12pm GMT Yanukovych begins by saying it is high time for him to announce his decision “to fight for the future of Ukraine against those who use fear and power”.
(3) The Tobruk parliament was Libya’s second elected legislature since longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising.
(4) Tunisia was ruled with an iron hand for 23 years by dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali until he was overthrown in a popular uprising in 2011 that sparked the Arab spring across the region.
(5) But lawyers for the victims say that whatever the circumstances of his arrest, the accusations are valid and were laid long before any suggestion that Morsi would be overthrown.
(6) If there is any danger of the regime being overthrown then all the sectors will actually unite against that … because their existence depends on this regime."
(7) In 12 Years a Slave, however, this reassuring cliche is overthrown, and the relationship between Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson) and Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) makes a mockery of the one between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen).
(8) Legal action and threats of litigation against the media and telecoms watchdog Ofcom in particular have held up the auction the new 4G mobile spectrum, overthrown a long battle to force BSkyB to share its sports and films programming with other channels, and delayed cuts to the cost of calling a mobile phone.
(9) Many of the journalists I spoke tried to convince me that army rule represented much-needed stability, a rare commodity during the years of turmoil since Mubarak was overthrown.
(10) The self-exiled president appealed to the US Congress, Senate and supreme court to reconsider the aid package being prepared to shore up Ukraine's depleted finances, arguing that US law forbids aid being given to a country that has overthrown a legitimately elected president.
(11) In 2001, when the Taliban were overthrown, there were fewer than 1 million children in school, very few of them girls.
(12) Dictators had been overthrown in Tunisia and Egypt, protests were shaking Bahrain, and Nato was poised to intervene in support of rebels in Libya fighting Muammar Gaddafi.
(13) By the time Mobutu was overthrown in 1997, after two decades of American and other western largesse, his country had just about one tenth of the paved roads it had had at independence in the early Sixties.
(14) In an interview in today's Guardian he says he is financing political opposition within Russia and believes the Putin regime will only be overthrown by force.
(15) They are on opposite sides of the Syrian conflict; on the same side of the fight against the Islamic State ; and on opposite sides of the Yemen conflict, where Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have overthrown the proxy US government and are now under bombardment by US ally Saudi Arabia, which is uncomfortable with the nuclear deal.
(16) At first, the protesters were mostly from Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood , and they gathered to demand his rule continued; once Morsi was overthrown by the army on 3 July, after days of mass protests, they then pushed for his reinstatement.
(17) Morsi was overthrown by the military on 3 July after millions took to the streets to demand he step down.
(18) No more regressive form of taxation has been devised on this continent since the old autocracies were overthrown.
(19) The lords of misrule will not be overthrown by mumbling.
(20) While most experts concluded he was incapacitated by a medical condition, others speculated he had been overthrown by rival power brokers.