Overthrow vs Desolate - What's the difference?
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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.
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
* Bible, Jer. ix. 11
* Tennyson
Barren and lifeless.
Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
Dismal or dreary.
Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
* Keble
To deprive of inhabitants.
To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
To abandon or forsake something.
To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
Overthrow is a related term of desolate.
As verbs the difference between overthrow and desolate
is that overthrow is to throw down to the ground, to overturn or overthrow can be (intransitive) to throw (something) so that it goes too far while desolate is to deprive of inhabitants.As a noun 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 an adjective desolate is
deserted and devoid of inhabitants.overthrow
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.
Quotations
* * (seeCites)desolate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house
- I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.
- And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
- desolate altars
- He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
- voice of the poor and desolate