Synonyms of the word overthrow


OVERTHROWCONCLUSION - DECREE - DEPOSE - DERANGEMENT - DISTURBANCE - ENDING - OVERRIDE - OVERRULE - OVERTURN - REVERSE - RULE - SUBVERT - TERMINATION - UPSET

overthrow

  • v. (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
  • v. (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
  • n. A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
  • n. (sports) A throw that goes too far.
  • n. (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence…

conclusion

  • n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
  • n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
  • n. A decision reached after careful thought.
  • n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
  • n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
  • n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
  • n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

decree

  • n. An edict or law.
  • n. (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
  • n. (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
  • v. To command by a decree.

depose

  • v. (literally transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  • v. (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
  • v. (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
  • v. (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
  • v. (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
  • v. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

derangement

  • n. The property of being deranged.
  • n. An act or instance of deranging.
  • n. (mathematics) A permutation of a set such that no element is in its previous position.

disturbance

  • n. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
  • n. Something that disturbs.
  • n. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
  • n. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
  • n. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.

ending

  • v. present participle of end.
  • n. A termination or conclusion.
  • n. The last part of something.
  • n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

override

  • v. To ride across or beyond something.
  • v. To ride a horse too hard.
  • v. To counteract the normal operation of something.
  • v. (object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the…
  • n. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
  • n. A royalty.
  • n. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.

overrule

  • v. (transitive) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
  • v. (transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
  • v. (transitive) To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
  • v. (transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.

overturn

  • v. To turn over, capsize or upset (something).
  • v. To overthrow or destroy something.
  • v. (law) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind.
  • v. To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

reverse

  • adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
  • adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
  • adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
  • adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
  • adj. (botany) Reversed.
  • adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
  • adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
  • n. The opposite of something.
  • n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
  • n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
  • n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
  • n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
  • n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
  • n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
  • n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
  • v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
  • v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
  • v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
  • v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
  • v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
  • v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
  • v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
  • v. To overthrow; to subvert.

rule

  • n. A regulation, law, guideline.
  • n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
  • n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
  • n. A regulating principle.
  • n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
  • n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
  • n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
  • n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
  • n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
  • n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
  • v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
  • v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
  • v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
  • v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
  • v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

subvert

  • v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  • v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
  • v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
  • n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

termination

  • n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
  • n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
  • n. An end in time; a conclusion.
  • n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
  • n. An outcome or result.
  • n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
  • n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
  • n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

upset

  • adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to…
  • n. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
  • n. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored…
  • n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
  • n. An upset stomach.
  • n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is…
  • v. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
  • v. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
  • v. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
  • v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
  • v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
  • v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

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