overthrew

Verb

The word is derived from overthrow

Meaning

of Overthrow

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Examples

Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite. Mengistu Haile Mariam

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again. Ahmed Ben Bella

Let me see if I get this right. We need to borrow $10 billion from China, and then we give it to Musharraf, who is a military dictator, who overthrew an elected government. And then we go to war, we lose all these lives promoting democracy in Iraq. I mean, what's going on here? Ron Paul

When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave every one his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon. Flavius Josephus

Carter didn't kill my brother with his own hand, but he overthrew him. If Nixon were President, my brother would still be on the throne. Ashraf Pahlavi

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones. Stephen Kinzer

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