OVERTHROWN Synonyms: 171 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in fallen

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verb

past participle of overthrow

as in overturned

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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

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Adjective

In the eight-episode Robocop series, written by Ocko, a giant tech conglomerate pursuades the city to place a powerful robot on its police force – a robot implanted with the consciousness of a beloved fallen officer, Alex Murphy (Stevens).

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Israel erected a monument to the fallen Altalena militants in 2008 on the Tel Aviv seafront and has been searching for the wreckage for years, with crews often working in secrecy.

— CBS News, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of fallen

Verb

According to The Sacramento Bee, California Highway Patrol said the crew member was driving a semi-truck that veered off the interstate highway and overturned.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026
At least one person died Thursday morning after a big rig overturned on Interstate 5 south of Zamora in Yolo County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of overturned

Adjective

Researchers have developed cyborg cockroaches that could help deliver emergency medical care to people trapped in collapsed buildings, caves, and other dangerous locations.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
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

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

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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

During court on Eyssallenne's preliminary hearing on Tuesday, prosecutors shared jarring dash camera video of the crash, which shows the boy speeding through an intersection before colliding with a car and getting thrown into the air.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
Since Watson arrived in Cleveland, NFL quarterbacks have thrown for at least 300 yards on 481 occasions.

— Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

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