Read full poem →That Gorlois and King Uther went to war:
And overthrown was Gorlois and slain.
Then Uther in his wrath and heat besieged
Dictionary Entry
To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
In a Sentence
“I hate the current government, but not enough to want to overthrow them.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. overthrown
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “overthrown”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To beat on them, they cannot stand;
They perish, quickly overthrown,
Loose from the very basement stone.
Read full poem →Where the burning cinders, blown
From the lips of the overthrown
Enceladus, fill the air.
Read full poem →And, in their fading glory, shone
Like hosts in battle overthrown.
As many a pinnacle, with shifting glance,
Read full poem →Or els the ways being foul, twenty to one,
He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known,
Read full poem →Thy country's curse is on thee! Justice sold, _5
Truth trampled, Nature's landmarks overthrown,
And heaps of fraud-accumulated gold,
Read full poem →Along the westering furnace flaring red.
O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,
The burden of your wrongs is on my head.
Read full poem →To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze
And by the unlabouring brood of the skies:
Read full poem →When yawning graves, and dying groan,
Proclaimed hell’s empire overthrown—
With untaught valour shalt compel