overthrow的意思|overthrow的解释-里氏词典

Overthrow \O`ver*throw"\, v. t. [imp. {Overthrew}; p. p.
{Overthrown}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overthrowing}.]
1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

His wife overthrew the table. --Jer. Taylor.

2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to
make a ruin of; to destroy; as, to overthrow a government.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. --Dryden.

[Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.
--Shak.

3. (Baseball) To throw (a baseball) beyond; to throw too high
and too far; to overshoot[1]; as, the shortstop overthrew
the first baseman.
[PJC]

Syn: To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin;
subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish;
beat; rout.

Overthrow \O"ver*throw`\, n.
1. The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrown;
ruin.

Your sudden overthrow much rueth me. --Spenser.

2.
(a) (Baseball) The act of throwing a ball too high, as
over a player's head.
(b) (Cricket) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so
that the striker makes an additional run.

Rangoon Radio said one monk had persuaded an unnamed political party to press for a speedy transfer of power in Burma and organized monks to overthrow the government.
Hau is among the Nationalist conservatives who still dream of returning to China to overthrow the Communists, and he may be expected to take a fairly hard-line stance on relations with Beijing.
He said the prisoners are being held by the Nicaraguan Resistance, an umbrella group of forces fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government.
It would be the first time the unions and associations have shared power since a member of a doctors' group headed a transitional cabinet for a year after the 1985 overthrow of long-time dictator Gaafar Nimeiri.
The United States does not recognize the Vietnamese-installed Phnom Penh government and has supported guerrillas fighting for its overthrow.
Turnout was put at 67% for the referendum, the second round of free elections since the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime two years ago.
Police say many of the killings were blamed on communist rebels, who have been fighting to overthrow the Philippine government since 1969 and have threatened to attack American military personnel.
Moscow is opposed to Iran's fundamentalist Islamic ideology as well as its resolute commitment to keep on fighting until the overthrow of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Meanwhile, the Bophuthatswana black homeland said it detained 44 ANC members this week after authorities uncovered an alleged ANC plot to overthrow homeland leader Lucas Mangope.
He alleges that the prisoner was murdered to stop the leak of details of a World War II plot by powerful Britons to overthrow Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
The government cannot afford to do without him. So the risk is great that the ANC's plan to overthrow the governments of Ciskei, Bophuthatswana and KwaZulu could lead to violence.
Now, as then, it would be better if he were not there - but it would be wrong to seek to overthrow him purely for reasons of vengeance or political gain.
"The return of Mrs. Marcos would enable her to mobilize the underground network of the Marcos dictatorship which is designed to overthrow this government and endanger our democratic gains and economic momentum," Mrs. Aquino said.
Ms. Bhutto took over the prime minister's seat occupied by her father before his overthrow 11 years earlier.
He gave his deposition during two sessions in 1986 and 1987, after he fled to Hawaii following the February 1986 overthrow of his government.
A magistrate Friday ordered six soldiers to stand trial on charges of attempting to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni.
The first Boland Amendment, passed in 1982, prohibited the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency from spending funds to overthrow the Sandinistas or to provoke conflict between Honduras and Nicaragua.
South Korea has been hit during the past month by a wave of violent protests by radical students who demand the overthrow of the government and reunification of the divided Korean peninsula.
The State Department reproached Jordan for playing host to a conference last weekend of Arab radicals that openly called for attacks on American targets and the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Saddam might discover a certain viscosity in his chain of command. The desire to overthrow him might become simultaneously more fervent and more logical.
The congress, based in Lusaka, Zambia, is the main black group fighting to overthrow the government of South Africa and end apartheid.
The ANC, based in Lusaka, Zambia, wages a bombing and sabotage campaign trying to overthrow South Africa's government.
He said they were working to overthrow the rule of his country by the descendants of freed American slaves who founded the nation in 1847.
Lithuania's secessionist government has accused the Kremlin of backing forces bent on its overthrow, but also appeared to improve the climate for formal talks by expressing a willingness to make major concessions.
The Sandinistas fear the Contras would become a right-wing military force and help overturn reforms in health, education and land distribution; the Contras fear continued Sandinista control of the army would lead to an overthrow of Mrs. Chamorro.
As soon as he got to his private White House quarters Monday night, Bush called Philippine President Corazon Aquino to express concern for the lives of Americans trapped in hotels in Manila by rebel forces trying to overthrow her.
He also sounded a defiant note, urging Arabs to rise up and overthrow leaders in countries aligned against him.
One of the coup leaders was Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan, a cashiered lieutenant colonel who once supported Mrs. Aquino but later led an August 1987 attempt to overthrow her.
Lwanga, 45, was arrested with 18 other people and charged with plotting to forcefully overthrow Museveni's government.
Instead, he says, the ANC, which employs terrorism as part of its strategy to overthrow the government, has "been determined to make the country ungovernable.

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