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Verbit
- (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
- (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
- (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
Substantiivit
- A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
- (sports) A throw that goes too far.
- (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
Esimerkit
- And he made a scourge of smale cordes, and drave them all out off the temple, bothe shepe and oxen, and powred doune the changers money, and overthrue their tables.
- His wife overthrew the table.
- I hate the current government, but not enough to want to overthrow them.
- When the walls of Thebes he overthrew.
- [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.
- What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race!
- He overthrew first base, for an error.
- The old Inspector,—who, by the by, I regret to say, was overthrown and killed by a horse, some time ago; (The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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