Overthrown Synonyms and Antonyms

Defeated
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ousted
  2. overcome
  3. overwhelmed
  4. vanquished
Cause the downfall of; of rulers
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. overturned
  2. subverted
  3. toppled
  4. tumbled
  5. unhorsed

Words Related to Overthrown

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Overthrown Sentence Examples

  • He was finally overthrown and killed by Hoshang Shah, king of Malwa.

  • In 17 4 2 the peshwa advanced to Mandla and exacted the payment of chauth (tributary blackmail), and from this time until 1781, when the successors of Sangram Sah were finally overthrown, Garha-Mandla remained practically a Mahratta dependency.

  • So that we are not disposed to accept a recently propounded theory 22 that a certain King Manium of Magan who was overthrown by the Akkadian king Naram-Sin about 2850 B.C., was none other than Merles, the earliest king of Egypt, who is generally identified with Narmerza.

  • Danby was at once overthrown, and in April 1679 Russell was one of the new privy council formed by Charles on the advice of Temple.

  • This principle more or less prevailed until it was overthrown by Lavoisier's doctrine that oxygen was the acid-producing element; Lavoisier being led to this conclusion by the almost general observation that acids were produced when non-metallic elements were burnt.

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