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of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion. Shak.

ert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

ishearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton.

To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.

To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.

n (Law), an inference which the law makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.

Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

To plot; to plan; to combine for. Angry clouds conspire your overthrow. Bp. Hall.

A defeat; an overthrow. [Obs.] After his foes' defeasance. Spenser.

To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.

Overthrow; defeat. [Obs.] "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl.

The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.

Overthrow or annulment by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judgment.