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- verb Past participle of
overthrow
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Examples
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While that means we sympathize with the overthrown, it also means that the overthrown are the worst politicians ever.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA “The Oath”: The Needs of the Few Outweigh the Needs of the Many? « TV BACON 2009
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Society will not be overthrown, that is true, but, I ask you, who would willingly accept such a life?
Modeste Mignon 2007
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Anyway, an interesting, if not particularly gripping, chapter in which we see Gepetto aka the overthrown Adversary, getting escorted around Fabletown and being cranky and hateful, understandibly so, to all concerned.
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Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan and an editor of the Wall Street Journal, criticized the jury's verdict in the Padilla case as having "overthrown" the Constitution and doing far more damage to the US 'liberty than any terrorist could.
Center's Ratner Says New Bush Memos Amount to "Treason" 2009
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Under that effigy lie the great bones of Sir John Cheyne, a mighty man of war, said to have been "overthrown" by Richard the Third at the battle of Bosworth Field.
Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Under that effigy lie the great bones of Sir John Cheyne, a mighty man of war, said to have been "overthrown" by Richard the Third at the battle of Bosworth Field.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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If America is on the verge of being "overthrown," it's not happening at the hands of Muslim-Americans.
Dissident Voice 2009
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A party with popular support of the people was 'overthrown' by a less popular party.
Malaysiakini 2009
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"overthrown" such a permanent fixture of the cognitive landscape as Newtonian gravitational theory, the general theory of relativity at once became a principal focus of philosophical interest and inquiry.
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity Ryckman, Thomas A. 2006
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"overthrown" between lines 17 and 113 — the poem nevertheless "feels" like it is somehow between rhyming and blank verse.
The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility 1997
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