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topple
1. v. to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something
The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator.
2. v. (intransitive) to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
The pile of pennies began to topple.

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That, say analysts, could detract from efforts to topple the Baghdad regime.

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