Maintain and Overthrow

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Maintain verb - To keep in good condition.

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Overthrow is an antonym for maintain.

Overthrow verb - Rule against.

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Maintain is an antonym for overthrow in defeat topic.

Nearby Words: overthrown, overthrowing

state	maintain state	overthrow state
order	maintain order	overthrow order
control	maintain control	overthrow control
society	maintain society	overthrow society
Other words: system, world, rule, authority, empire.

They are then obliged to maintain the cover as a human family and eventually overthrow the human governments and their Venusian controllers.

Source: Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
To maintain the Sith organization, a Sith Lord intentionally takes on a Bastard Understudy apprentice in order to supplant and overthrow him when he becomes too old and/or weak.

Source: Bastard Understudy
He still manages to pull a straight-B report card and somehow maintain his Rich Idiot with No Day Job public persona while secretly working to overthrow the government nights and weekends.

Source: Triple Shifter

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