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    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.

    1. Though Mr. Benjamin maintained it was by no means certain that Mr. Culverhouse could have overthrown the board and management, "We felt it was in the best interest of stockholders to get this resolved while we were in control of the situation.
    2. Burma's worst riots since democracy was overthrown 26 years ago have left at least 80 people dead this week, and unofficial reports said many victims were unarmed students and Buddhist monks.
    3. But the Romanian students' meetings and petitions also mirrored the string of public denunciations that have arisen since dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu was overthrown Dec. 22.
    4. After weeks of bloody hand-to-hand combat, Saddam is overthrown and Iraq liberated.
    5. Had the dynasty not been overthrown in 1868, the man who might be shogun today is Tsunenari Tokugawa, 50, current head of the family.
    6. Namphy was overthrown in the revolt Avril rode into power. Noncommissioned officers who led the coup claimed they ousted Namphy because they were outraged by state-sponsored murder and political repression.
    7. Iraq claimed that it invaded at the invitation of unidentified rebels it said had already overthrown Kuwait's government.
    8. I can't tell you all the horrors, all the blood, what criminals they are." The Contra rebels grew from a group of national guardsmen that fled to Honduras and the northern mountains after Somoza was overthrown.
    9. He was prime minsiter from 1970 to 1977, when he was overthrown by President Gen.
    10. Mr. Ozal, who met with President Bush Tuesday, said he doubts Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will be overthrown in a coup because of his control over Iraqi society.
    11. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was overthrown in a 1977 coup and was hanged two years later for his alleged complicity in a murder plot.
    12. He was overthrown by officials led by Gen. Walter Lopez Reyes, who accused him of corruption and abuse of power.
    13. The visit of Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, only days before the Communist dictator was overthrown, was needed to protest a defense contract, Iran's foreign minister said today.
    14. They said the amnesty offered after dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown and executed last month should be extended to them and they should go free.
    15. Rebel fighters, headquartered in Pakista, have vowed to continue their fight until Afghanistan's President Najib and his ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is overthrown.
    16. The dictator was overthrown Dec. 22 and executed Dec. 25.
    17. But White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the situation in Panama City was confused and he couldn't confirm reports that Mr. Noriega had been overthrown.
    18. "The government has been overthrown," leader Abu Bakr of Jamaat al-Muslimeen, Arabic for the Moslem Group, said on government television.
    19. The ANC is the main guerrilla group fighting to overthrown the South African government and end apartheid.
    20. The crowd was the largest mustered in Manila by the loyalists since rallies in 1986 shortly after Marcos was overthrown and forced into exile.
    21. When Juan D. Peron was overthrown in Argentina in 1955, he took a boat to Paraguay under Paraguayan government protection.
    22. Ceausescu was overthrown on Dec. 22 when army troops and citizens rebelled against him, and he was executed along with his wife on Christmas Day.
    23. Rios Montt was overthrown in 1983 by a military coup led by Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores, who then had an elected convention reform the constitution and called elections, which Cerezo won in 1984.
    24. The old system we fought against has been overthrown.
    25. Mrs. Cornea, 60, is an instructor at Cluj University and endured years of hardship for publicly opposing the repressive policies of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was overthrown and executed in December.
    26. Afterward, Baghdad contended it invaded at the request of a new government that had overthrown the old ruling family.
    27. The unit was disbanded after Honecker was overthrown.
    28. Some believe that if they don't like a certain measure, the government should be overthrown.
    29. Obote was overthrown in 1985 and Sseibirumbi was arrested two years later.
    30. Mossadegh was overthrown in a 1953 coup.
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