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overthrowal|əʊvəˈθrəʊəl|
[f. overthrow v. + -al II.]
The act of overthrowing; subversion, defeat.
1916W. J. Locke Wonderful Year xxiii. 333 Thus came the overthrowal of all Corinna's scheme of values. 1920― House of Baltazar xxi. 257 The ultimate object of this gathering was the overthrowal of the Government. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb II. 196 The upsetting of kings and the overthrowal of empires. 1949Tablet 3 Sept. 147/1 The overthrowal of the Second Reich of the Hohenzollerns. 1968Progressive Nov. 10/3 Spiro Agnew..had coined at least two new words by early October: ‘overthrowal’ and ‘uprisal’. |
