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# overthrow

«overthrow» in Mova's school dictionary: **to remove them from power by force** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (overthrow, overthrows, overthrew, overthrowing, overthrown); noun (an overthrow, overthrows)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To overthrow a ruler or government is to remove them from power by force. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#m1)

2) The overthrow of a ruler is that removal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#m2)

3) (sport, cricket and baseball) To overthrow is to throw a ball too far, past the player meant to catch it; in cricket, an overthrow can give extra runs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#m3)

4) To overthrow a city or building is to destroy it by force, knocking it down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it tells of kings and governments losing power in revolutions. In stories it shows rebels and heroes fighting a tyrant. In cricket it is a fielding mistake.

### examples

- The people overthrew the cruel king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x1)
- The rebels planned the overthrow of the tyrant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x2)
- In the story, the mice overthrew the cat's rule. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x3)
- The army was overthrown in a single night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x4)
- An overthrow gave the batting team four extra runs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x5)
- The shortstop overthrew first base. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x6)
- Many emperors were overthrown in history. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x7)
- They wanted to overthrow the government. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x8)
- The five soldiers grumbled a little, and muttered that it was their business to overthrow cities, not to build them up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/#x9)

### note

Irregular like «throw»: overthrow, overthrew, overthrown. Do not confuse with «throw over». In cricket maths, overthrow runs are added to the runs already taken.

### In the corpora

- ["Regime change" means overthrowing (forcing out) a foreign government.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/7/)
- [The Haitian Revolution from 1791 overthrew slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, and Haiti became independent in 1804.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/18/)
- [In 1337 China was ruled by the Mongol Yuan dynasty, which the Chinese Ming dynasty overthrew in 1368.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/11/)
- [Why is thy strong one overthrown?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1212/)
- [Therefore He swore concerning them, that He would overthrow them in the wilderness;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1932/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overthrow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overthrow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.