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Overthrow   /ˈoʊvərθrˌoʊ/   Listen
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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"Overthrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... on almost under their eyes. And these men would have us to suppose that Hebrew prophets, living in the center of a small people, could, with mere human knowledge, foretell with absolute certainty the overthrow of flourishing empires, when at the acme of ...
— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson
... I wish to say something in memory of my friend. (ANNA clings to him, weeping. The others come respectfully nearer, and wait.) Gran was the richest man in the country. Why was it that he had no fear of the people? Why was it that he believed that its salvation lay in the overthrow of ...
— Three Dramas - The Editor--The Bankrupt--The King • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson
... Church at Tuscarora was broken up in the spring of 1846, on account of an emigration to the Indian Territory, under the influence of Rev. James Cusick, the party being composed mostly of the members of that Church, which caused its overthrow. The next year, after about one-third of the emigration party had died in the Indian Territory, the remainder came home among the Tuscaroras, but Rev. Mr. Cusick removed into Canada and labored among the ...
— Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians • Elias Johnson
... gates of France to the armies which brought back the king, merited reward. All those rendered under the standard of the Republic and the Empire were acts of felony." He then gave his special view of the overthrow of the French monarchy. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
... existence, through colonisation, the great territories and great States of the North-west. It is this settlement, and the later adjustment of 1820, that Douglas and his friends in the South are undertaking to overthrow. Slavery is not, as Judge Douglas contends, a local issue; it is a national responsibility. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise throws open not only a great new territory to the curse of slavery; it throws open the whole slavery question for the embroiling ...
— Abraham Lincoln • George Haven Putnam


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