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. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner:

   In 1978 when the Shah was overthrown, the United States government froze the funds of Cubic Defense, the terror victims came to court to demand the frozen funds be used to pay off their unsatisfied judgments against Iran.

2. 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.

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. 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.

5. 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.