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adjective

as in fallen

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verb

past participle of overthrow
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as in overturned

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as in vanquished

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Recent Examples of overthrown
Adjective
His association with the overthrown Batista government was through the police and not political, a distinction that may have spared him his life and certainly aided his relatively early release from prison. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026 No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026 The coach pointed to his chest in reference to Lawrence’s overthrown pass. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025 With the runner already at second base, Williams’ first pitch was an overthrown fastball that went to the backstop, allowing Jose Altuve to move to third base immediately. — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overthrown
  1. fallen
  2. overturned
  3. vanquished
  4. collapsed
  5. disproved
  6. subjugated
  7. faded
  8. thrown
Adjective
  • Kneeling beside the fallen buck, Charles, an avid trophy bowhunter, ran his hands over the gigantic rack.
    — Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The rules ban all plants within a foot of the home and require the first five feet around homes to be free of combustible materials such as firewood, fallen leaves and branches, and mulch or wood chips.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of fallen
Verb
  • But that ruling was appealed and overturned during arbitration this week, with Bogan taking home nothing, court records show.
    — Amber Gaudet Updated August 21, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026
  • For now, Arion has not filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in hopes of having that suspension overturned.
    — Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of overturned
Verb
  • Over the course of ten wildly successful games, Kratos vanquished mortals, creatures and gods alike.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In recent years, there were delays and interruptions because of weather, but not full days getting vanquished.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of vanquished
Adjective
  • Henry County Coroner Brian Clark said the man, James Briar, appears to have gone around a barricade and fallen into the collapsed road.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Thursday morning marked 72 hours since the quake, a period when survivors are considered most likely to be found alive beneath collapsed buildings.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of collapsed
Verb
  • Leppanen recounted that a colleague told her that the pouches dissolved even though the information that disproved this was available online.
    — Matthew Chapman, STAT, 14 July 2026
  • This left open the question of whether more complex, loopy geometries would behave differently, while also leaving competing historical theories yet to be disproved.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Definition of disproved
Verb
  • This would rake in untold billions of dollars for the company — and all but ensure that its lofty, moral duty would forever be subjugated the money-making whims of Wall Street.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In a country like India, subjugated early in the history of capitalist imperialism, and then bullied after independence by the West, a degree of self-renunciation and collective sacrifice was widely understood to be requisite to economic and political self-strengthening.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
Definition of subjugated
Adjective
  • The team behind this research studied 14 candidates for faded or remnant radio galaxies found in a region of the sky over Earth, studied intensely by the XMM-Newton X-ray spacecraft, called the XMM–Newton Large-Scale Structure (XMM–LSS) field.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • How to Deadhead Coneflowers Deadheading coneflowers is as simple as removing the faded flower heads.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of faded
Verb
  • Vikings rookie cornerback Da'Veawn Armstead had a punch thrown at him by the Ravens' Keyon Martin after the two got tangled up in one-on-one drills.
    — Ren Clayton, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • And my parents were there and then you immediately get thrown into the press conference into the scrum with Tony Khan, which is exciting.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
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