OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 3208

overthrow

/əʊvəˈθɹəʊ/
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…