OVERTHROW
\ˌə͡ʊvəθɹˈə͡ʊ], \ˌəʊvəθɹˈəʊ], \ˌəʊ_v_ə_θ_ɹ_ˈəʊ]\
Definitions of OVERTHROW
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
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The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
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The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head.
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A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.
By Oddity Software
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To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
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The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
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The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head.
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A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Act of overthrowing; fall; ruin.
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Overthrew.
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Overthrown.
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To throw over or down; bring to an end; ruin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The state of being overthrown; ruin; subversion; defeat.
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To turn upside down; to throw down; to demolish; to defeat; to subvert.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. The act of overturning; the state of being overturned; ruin; destruction; defeat; discomfiture; degradation; downfall.
