Overthrow

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin. Your sudden overthrow much rueth me. Spenser.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor.

2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion. Shak.

Synonyms: demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin; subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish; beat; rout.