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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Overthrow \O`ver*throw"\, v. t. [imp. {Overthrew}; p. p.
{Overthrown}; p. pr & vb n. {Overthrowing}.]
1. To throw over to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down
His wife overthrew the table. --Jer. Taylor.
2. 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.
Syn: To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin;
subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish;
beat rout.
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