Meanings (ES + gloss)
deposición • derrocamiento
A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force; usurpation.
But Judge Livingstone decided that no resistence to law, however extensive or violent, is treason if overthrow of the government is not its object.
What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
derribar • derrocar
To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.
I hate the current government, but not enough to want to overthrow them.
Wounded and overthrown, the Britons continued their resistance, clung round the legs of the Norman steeds, and cumbered their advance; while their brethren, thrusting with pikes, p…
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