Failure
Overthrow
Overthrow noun - Failure to win a contest.
Usage example: the surprising overthrow of the world's top-ranked chess player
Failure is a synonym for overthrow in downfall topic. Sometimes you can use "Failure" instead a noun "Overthrow".
Nearby Words: overthrown, overthrowing
How words are described
| complete | complete failure | complete overthrow |
| successful | successful failure | successful overthrow |
| final | final failure | final overthrow |
| subsequent | subsequent failure | subsequent overthrow |
| Other adjectives: eventual. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- When Reilly and Savinkov attend the government hearing in Whitehall on their failure to overthrow Lenin, the aide at the front desk asks if they are carrying weapons.
Source: Series / Reilly, Ace of Spies -
Also in Kingdom Come, the Other Light attempts to build a resistance force in order to overthrow Christ at the end of the Millennium when Satan is loosed from imprisonment, despite that Scripture says it will end in failure...as it eventually does by the end of the book.
Source: Literature / Left Behind -
Failure Is the Only Option: Given that the DC Universe exists as a plausible mirror representation of the real world, so long as an anarchist revolution doesn't take place in reality, Anarky can't overthrow the governments of the DC universe.
Source: Comic Book / Anarky
Cite this Source
Overthrow and Failure. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/failure/overthrow
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