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单词 putsch
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Definition of putsch in English:

putsch

noun pʊtʃpʊtʃ
  • A violent attempt to overthrow a government; a coup.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The putsch was rounded off by the Turkish constitutional court which sanctioned the action of the military and banned Refah.
    • Not a few thought that the Herut might mount a putsch.
    • August 19, 1991, was the date of the anti-democratic putsch in Moscow.
    • Whether this would be achieved by popular uprising or a putsch by a few well placed individuals with Western backing has yet to be seen.
    • It was also another putsch, another military putsch, very violent.
    • The Turkish military has carried out a total of four putsches against the government over the last 40 years.
    • Many of them participated actively in the failed putsch of August 1991.
    • Following the military putsch in 1980 the system took on a further dimension.
    • Immediately rumours began to circulate that the blackout was part of a putsch against Estrada.
    • I was in Moscow shortly before the putsch in 1993 and I noticed a threatening climate.
    • A country whose holidays and putsches all take place in beer halls can't be all bad.
    • In Caracas, the elected president is a Castroite who earlier attempted a beer-hall putsch and is busily immiserating his middle class.
    • De Gaulle became president of France in 1958, following a putsch by French settlers and the military in Algeria.
    • In fairness to those behind the alleged attempt at a Conservative putsch, they're not the first to try it hereabouts.
    • Only three years earlier in 1971, the Turkish army had carried out a putsch, and for two years left-wingers suffered arrest, torture and murder.
    • To this day the PP claims it was itself the victim of a left-wing putsch and refuses to accept the result of the election.
    • Taya himself usurped power by force in a 1984 putsch.
    • The result has been ideological confusion, civilian helplessness, and an environment eminently hospitable to putsches.
    • The attempted putsch of August 1991 was not far off.
    • Hitler did not come to power through a putsch, but through the ballot-box.
    Synonyms
    insurrection, rebellion, revolt, riot, revolution, uprising, rising, coup, coup d'état, protest, strike

Derivatives

  • putschist

  • noun
    • Sadr and his fellow putschists have been spectacularly unsuccessful in winning popular support.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Before Owen there were millennarians and utopians, prophets and putschists.
      • The putschists wasted no time in sending aerial-amphibian troops to Estonia to reinforce the Soviet army forces garrisoned there.
      • This emphasis runs throughout the book, from Lenin's debates with Kautsky to the appeals of the August putschists in 1991.
      • This deprived the putschists of a constitutional fig-leaf to cover their seizure of power.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Swiss German, literally 'thrust, blow'.

Rhymes

butch
 
 

Definition of putsch in US English:

putsch

nounpo͝oCHpʊtʃ
  • A violent attempt to overthrow a government.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was in Moscow shortly before the putsch in 1993 and I noticed a threatening climate.
    • De Gaulle became president of France in 1958, following a putsch by French settlers and the military in Algeria.
    • It was also another putsch, another military putsch, very violent.
    • Whether this would be achieved by popular uprising or a putsch by a few well placed individuals with Western backing has yet to be seen.
    • Many of them participated actively in the failed putsch of August 1991.
    • Following the military putsch in 1980 the system took on a further dimension.
    • A country whose holidays and putsches all take place in beer halls can't be all bad.
    • In fairness to those behind the alleged attempt at a Conservative putsch, they're not the first to try it hereabouts.
    • The result has been ideological confusion, civilian helplessness, and an environment eminently hospitable to putsches.
    • Not a few thought that the Herut might mount a putsch.
    • Only three years earlier in 1971, the Turkish army had carried out a putsch, and for two years left-wingers suffered arrest, torture and murder.
    • The attempted putsch of August 1991 was not far off.
    • In Caracas, the elected president is a Castroite who earlier attempted a beer-hall putsch and is busily immiserating his middle class.
    • The Turkish military has carried out a total of four putsches against the government over the last 40 years.
    • To this day the PP claims it was itself the victim of a left-wing putsch and refuses to accept the result of the election.
    • Hitler did not come to power through a putsch, but through the ballot-box.
    • The putsch was rounded off by the Turkish constitutional court which sanctioned the action of the military and banned Refah.
    • Taya himself usurped power by force in a 1984 putsch.
    • August 19, 1991, was the date of the anti-democratic putsch in Moscow.
    • Immediately rumours began to circulate that the blackout was part of a putsch against Estrada.
    Synonyms
    insurrection, rebellion, revolt, riot, revolution, uprising, rising, coup, coup d'état, protest, strike

Origin

Early 20th century: from Swiss German, literally ‘thrust, blow’.

 
 
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