Synonyms for Overthrowing:

• adj.

  •subversive (adjective)
  • more undermining,
  • under mining,
  • most insurrectionary,
  • under-mining,
  • more insurrectionary,
  • most undermining,
  • more perversive,
  • under-ground,
  • more overthrowing,
  • most perversive,
  • most overthrowing.

• v.

  •defeating (verb)
  • winning,
  • conquering,
  • foiling,
  • trumping,
  • Overcoming,
  • Overturning,
  • mastering,
  • Capturing,
  • Surmounting,
  • Defeating,
  • Outdoing,
  • quelling,
  • outplaying,
  • Vanquishing,
  • crushing,
  • whipping,
  • Subjecting,
  • Predominating,
  • Checkmating,
  • Subduing,
  • Triumphing,
  • humbling,
  • beating,
  • overpowering,
  • trouncing,
  • Routing.
  •revolting (verb)
  • upsetting,
  • restructuring,
  • revolting,
  • shaking up,
  • Mutinying,
  • rebelling.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • perversive,
  • subversive,
  • under ground.
  •n.
  • oppression.
  •Other relevant words:
  • absolutism,
  • adversity,
  • angle,
  • arsonist,
  • asperity,
  • austereness,
  • autarchy,
  • authoritarianism,
  • badness,
  • blackguard,
  • boggle,
  • burden,
  • burdensomeness,
  • burthen,
  • caesarism,
  • clapperclaw,
  • consider,
  • contumely,
  • corruptive,
  • cut,
  • cut back,
  • cut down,
  • cut into,
  • debacle,
  • debate,
  • deliberate,
  • delve,
  • demeaning,
  • derangement,
  • devastating,
  • dig,
  • disconcerting,
  • disgustful,
  • disgusting,
  • dismantle,
  • distasteful,
  • down,
  • drubbing,
  • evanesce,
  • exercising weight,
  • fade,
  • fetching,
  • firebomb,
  • firebug,
  • flabbergast,
  • flagellation,
  • fleet,
  • flip,
  • flip over,
  • flogging,
  • foul,
  • freedom fighter,
  • frustration,
  • get down,
  • give,
  • grimness,
  • guerilla,
  • guerrilla,
  • hand,
  • hardness,
  • harshness,
  • heaviness,
  • humiliating,
  • ill-treat,
  • ill-treatment,
  • ill-usage,
  • ill-use,
  • impose,
  • incendiary bomb,
  • incitive,
  • inclemency,
  • inflict,
  • iniquity,
  • instigative,
  • insult,
  • insurrectionist,
  • irregular,
  • lacing,
  • land,
  • lashing,
  • let down,
  • level,
  • licking,
  • loathly,
  • loathsome,
  • lower,
  • maltreat,
  • maltreatment,
  • mistreat,
  • misuse,
  • monocracy,
  • moot,
  • mortifying,
  • one-man rule,
  • override,
  • overrule,
  • overturn,
  • overwhelming,
  • pass,
  • pass off,
  • pass on,
  • pervert,
  • pestiferous,
  • rabble-rousing,
  • rase,
  • raze,
  • reach,
  • rebel,
  • reduce,
  • repellant,
  • repellent,
  • repelling,
  • reverse,
  • revilement,
  • revolutionary,
  • revolutionist,
  • rigor,
  • rigorousness,
  • rigour,
  • roll,
  • ruff,
  • seduction,
  • severeness,
  • shabbiness,
  • shogunate,
  • shout,
  • skanky,
  • slaughter,
  • snappy,
  • stalinism,
  • step,
  • stiffness,
  • stifling,
  • subvert,
  • subverter,
  • suppression,
  • system of weights,
  • take down,
  • taking,
  • tanning,
  • tear down,
  • thrashing,
  • thwarting,
  • tip,
  • tip over,
  • totalitarianism,
  • trim,
  • trim back,
  • trim down,
  • tumble,
  • turn,
  • unfairness,
  • unjustness,
  • unpatriotic,
  • upset,
  • victorious,
  • vilification,
  • visit,
  • walloping,
  • weight down,
  • weight unit,
  • weightiness,
  • weighting,
  • whacking,
  • whipstitch,
  • whipstitching,
  • wicked,
  • yucky,
  • free weight,
  • hard knocks,
  • put down,
  • tump over,
  • slant,
  • rigourousness,
  • knock down.

Paraphrases for Overthrowing:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    toppling, overthrow, topple.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    ousting, toppling.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Removing, thwarting, Deposing, Subverting, destabilizing, Overruling, Overcoming, Revoking, Destroying, dismantling, uprooting, Rejecting, Defeating, Waiving, changing, opposing, demolishing, Reversing, projecting, upsetting, aborting, wrecking, Quashing, Cancelling, eroding, hindering, undermining, shifting, breaking, ruining, curbing, dropping, turning, spreading, Attempting, Plunging, pouring, Tipping, lying, dumping, downing, pulling.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Overturning, overriding.

Overthrowing Sentence Examples:

• It was Rajah Gantang himself who had come among them, to seek his opportunity for overthrowing the English, and now his opportunity had come.

• If the former, we cannot hope to succeed without entirely overthrowing his powers of resistance.