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noun

Overthrow n.

1.

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

2.

(a)

(Baseball) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head.

(b)

(Cricket) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.

verb

Overthrow v. t. (past overthrew; past part. overthrown; pres. part. overthrowing)

1.

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

2.

To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy; as, to overthrow a government. "When the walls of Thebes he overthrew." "(Gloucester) that seeks to overthrow religion."

3.

(Baseball) To throw (a baseball) beyond; to throw too high and too far; to overshoot (1); as, the shortstop overthrew the first baseman.

Synonyms: To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin; subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish; beat; rout.

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Etymology of 'Overthrow'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overthrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... tempest over the whole East. Seated on his chariot drawn by captive kings, with a caged emperor before him, he boasts of his power which overrides all things. Then, afflicted with disease, he raves against the gods and would overthrow them as he has overthrown earthly rulers. Tamburlaine is an epic rather than a drama; but one can understand its instant success with a people only half civilized, fond of military glory, and the instant adoption of its "mighty line" as the instrument ...

— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... respectively with the rich see of Durham and the important and deeply-dyed Puritan diocese of London. Charles was steadily sowing the wind, and destined to reap the whirlwind which was to sweep him from his throne, and involve the monarchy and the Church in the same overthrow. Three months before Bunyan's birth Buckingham, on the eve of his departure for the beleaguered and famine-stricken city of Rochelle, sanguinely hoping to conclude a peace with the French king beneath its walls, had been struck down by the knife of a fanatic, to the undisguised ...

— The Life of John Bunyan • Edmund Venables

... know in the least, themselves, beyond the fact that they want all the power; that they want to destroy the nobility, overthrow the church, and lay hands on the property of all who are more wealthy than themselves. Naturally the lowest classes of the towns, who are altogether ignorant, believe that by supporting these men, and by pulling down all above them, it would no longer be ...

— No Surrender! - A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee • G. A. Henty

... about, (how strange a story!) In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces and piles stupendous, Of which the ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... comedy of "The Heiress," about to be played at the Chalet, might very well be called, in view of Modeste's frame of mind, "The Designs of a Young Girl"; for since the overthrow of her illusions she had fully made up her mind to give her hand to no man whose qualifications ...

— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac

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