English words for 'After a coup.'
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noun
- A coup d'état.
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
- (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
- A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
- (US, historical) Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
- (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
- a brilliant and notable success
verb
noun
noun
noun
verb
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive, figuratively) To confound, to disrupt.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, intransitive) To capsize; to walk clumsily; to fall over.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To turn (something) upside down, to invert; to capsize, to overturn; (specifically) to drink a glass (of an alcoholic beverage) completely.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To engulf, to submerge.
noun
- the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
- a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
- a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
- (countable, politics) A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
- (countable, politics) The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
- (astronomy) In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.
- (card games) a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
noun
- (now chiefly US) The forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; a coup; an ousting.
- (UK) Someone who ousts.
- (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
- (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
- a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
- a wrongful dispossession
verb
noun
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
- a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation
- A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
- (economics) The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.
- (economics, UK) The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
verb
noun
- The act of overthrowing a government or a ruler; dethronement.
- A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
- the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government
- The condition of being subverted.
- A revision considered more similar to preceding subversions than a revision deemed a new "version" is to preceding versions.
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
noun
verb
- (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
- (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
- (ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
- (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
- (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cancel officially
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- rule against
- change radically
verb
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- (computing) Ellipsis of reverse-engineer.
- (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- (aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- (rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- (ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
- (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
- turn inside out or upside down
- cancel officially
- change to the contrary
- rule against
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
adj
- (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- (botany) Reversed.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
- directed or moving toward the rear
- of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle
noun
- (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (numismatics) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- The opposite of something.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.)
- a relation of direct opposition
- the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed
- turning in the opposite direction
- (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design
verb
noun
adj
intj
verb
noun
- The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
- (countable) The result of such a process, such as a dental restoration (a dental prosthesis).
- The return of a socioeconomic formation in the role of the dominant mode of production.
- The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
- (theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
- the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
- getting something back again
- some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
- a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
- the state of being restored to its former good condition
noun
- A coup d'état.
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
- (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
- A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
- (US, historical) Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
- (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
- a brilliant and notable success
verb
noun
noun
noun
verb
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive, figuratively) To confound, to disrupt.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, intransitive) To capsize; to walk clumsily; to fall over.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To turn (something) upside down, to invert; to capsize, to overturn; (specifically) to drink a glass (of an alcoholic beverage) completely.
- (British dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To engulf, to submerge.
noun
- the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
- a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
- a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
- (countable, politics) A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
- (countable, politics) The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
- (astronomy) In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.
- (card games) a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
noun
- (now chiefly US) The forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; a coup; an ousting.
- (UK) Someone who ousts.
- (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
- (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
- a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
- a wrongful dispossession
verb
noun
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
- a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation
- A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
- (economics) The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.
- (economics, UK) The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
verb
noun
- The act of overthrowing a government or a ruler; dethronement.
- A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
- the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government
- The condition of being subverted.
- A revision considered more similar to preceding subversions than a revision deemed a new "version" is to preceding versions.
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
noun
verb
- (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
- (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
- (ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
- (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
- (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- turn from an upright or normal position
- cancel officially
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- rule against
- change radically
noun
- The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
- (countable) The result of such a process, such as a dental restoration (a dental prosthesis).
- The return of a socioeconomic formation in the role of the dominant mode of production.
- The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
- (theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
- the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
- getting something back again
- some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
- a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
- the state of being restored to its former good condition
noun
- A coup d'état.
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
- (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
- A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
- (US, historical) Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
- (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
- a brilliant and notable success
verb
verb
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- (computing) Ellipsis of reverse-engineer.
- (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- (aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- (rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- (ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
- (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
- turn inside out or upside down
- cancel officially
- change to the contrary
- rule against
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
adj
- (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- (botany) Reversed.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
- directed or moving toward the rear
- of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle
noun
- (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (numismatics) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- The opposite of something.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.)
- a relation of direct opposition
- the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed
- turning in the opposite direction
- (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design