Assassination vs Overthrow - What's the difference?
assassination | overthrow |
killing or murder for political reasons
To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John II:
* Jeremy Taylor
To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
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(intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
(sports) A throw that goes too far.
(cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
As nouns the difference between assassination and overthrow
is that assassination is killing or murder for political reasons while overthrow is a removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force or overthrow can be (sports) a throw that goes too far.As a verb overthrow is
to throw down to the ground, to overturn or overthrow can be (intransitive) to throw (something) so that it goes too far.assassination
English
(wikipedia assassination)Noun
(en noun)- The assassination of the king occurred at night.
See also
* targeted killingoverthrow
English
Etymology 1
From .Verb
- And he made a scourge of smale cordes, and drave them all out off the temple, bothe shepe and oxen, and powred doune the changers money, and overthrue their tables.
- His wife overthrew the table.
- I hate the current government, but not enough to want to overthrow them.
- When the walls of Thebes he overthrew .
- [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.
Derived terms
* overthrowalNoun
(en noun)- What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!
Hypernyms
* (removal by force) downfallCoordinate terms
* (removal by force) collapseEtymology 2
Verb
Noun
(en noun)- He overthrew first base, for an error.