When you overthrow a ruler or a regime, you throw them out, usually by force. If you're a rebel you may plan to overthrow the current government and install a new regime.
To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
Noun
the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force)
Noun
the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
Verb
rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"
Verb
cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class"
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.
Overthrow
His wife overthrew the table.2.
When the walls of Thebes he overthrew.
[Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.
Overthrow
Your sudden overthrow much rueth me.2.
To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
Usage Examples
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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Other Usage ExamplesLaw represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?