Definition for O'VER-THROW'

O'VER-THROW', n.

  1. The state of being overturned or turned off the basis.
  2. Ruin; destruction; subversion; as, the overthrow of the state.
  3. Defeat; discomfiture; as, the overthrow of enemies. Dryden.
  4. Degradation. Shak.

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