overthrow
verb (used with object)
to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish.
will overthrow
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future tenseof overthrow.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Eventually these enduring uber-bugs — each one a coffee bean of horror, a centimeter long — will overthrow her, overtake Chicago.
From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 27, 2014
The question is this: is the internet a revolutionary innovation, something that will overthrow the established order?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011
How feminism will overthrow patriarchy goes unexplained, though she believes it requires the replacement of power with pleasure.
From Time Magazine Archive
The better principle, by virtue of its superior growth, will overthrow the worse and weaker one, which has relatively declined in power throughout all the long contest between the two.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Your people are quarrelling with Tippoo, as they quarrelled with his father, Hyder; and I think that, before long, it is possible they will overthrow him, and take possession of his territory.
From At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
