Synonyms for overthrown
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1. List of paraphrases for "overthrown":

   toppled, overturned, ousted, reversed, deposed, spilled, toppling, plunged, defeated

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1. Jim WATSON / AFP:

   So many scientific certainties have been overthrown since our great-grandparents were alive, that’s part of the fun of the book.

2. Duncan Innes-Ker:

   The desire for control is not something particular to any time period, it is a fundamental tenet of autocratic governments that they are constantly paranoid about being overthrown.

3. Simms:

   The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

4. David Frum:

   They're not horrified by the violence anymore, they're increasingly accepting it. And they're accepting too that our institutions, the institutions of the United States, are so defective that they need to be overthrown and rebuilt and renewed in some radical new way with violence, always, in the background as the tool by which this will be done.

5. Aldous Huxley:

   The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.