overthrow
verb (used with object)
to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish.
had been overthrowing
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past perfect progressiveof overthrow.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He had really a purpose in all the horrors he had perpetrated, namely, to clear the way for restoring the old government at Rome, which Marius and his Italians had been overthrowing.
From Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte Mary Yonge
