Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which overturns or subverts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who overturns.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
overturns .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then came the Revolution, that mighty overturner of all things sacred and time-honored, and a new chapter was written in the story of the Sainte Ampoule.
Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. Charles Morris 1877
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Portraits of Theodoric himself, unfortunately we have none; but we have two absolutely contemporary portraits of Justinian, the overturner of his kingdom, and one of Justinian's wife, the celebrated
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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Vegetation is the peaceable overturner of buildings, the battering-ram which brings them to the ground, though the trumpets never sound for siege.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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There was yet another change brought about by that great overturner
Fighting the Flames 1859
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A herald interrupts them in the midst of their lamentations to announce to them the decree of the senate, which is that Eteocles, on account of his attachment to his country, though a fratricide, shall be honored with fitting funeral rites, but that Polynices, the would-be overturner of his native city, shall be cast out unburied, a prey to the dogs.
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840
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