OVERTHROW

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor.

2.
v.

To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion. Shak.

3.
n.

The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin. Your sudden overthrow much rueth me. Spenser.

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