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overthrew |
1 definition found 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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