regime-change
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the past USA history, we often failed to regime change a single person, but our failure was not as gross of a mistake as Mr. Bush who sends the entire USA military to change a one person regime."
- "BTW, are they gonna' regime change Washington like they regime changed Baghdad? Let's hope. Any tickets for the hangings available yet? Ticketron seems to be sold out and isn't taking reservations."
- "Lastly, if we give up our nuclear weapons we have nothing left. America cut a deal with Muammar al-Qaddafi to give up his weapons, and look at Libya now. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein actually stopped developing weapons, and they regime-changed him. With nuclear weapons, I control my destiny. Without them, I am toast."
- "The French bombarded Damascus, which they had regime-changed in 1920, in 1925, 1926, and 1945, and they pacified the city with martial law during most of the 'peaceful' intervals."
- "cool good luck developing their own. Oh and US also signed the Budapest Memorandum. Shame they broke that when they regime changed Ukraine in 2014"
- "It's true enough that we and the Soviets both did a lot of that during the Cold War, and we "regime changed" Iraq and Afghanistan through military force under Bush, Cheney and their neocons."
Etymology
A denominal from regime change.