Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for O'VER-THROW'
O'VER-THROW', n.
- The state of being overturned or turned off the basis.
- Ruin; destruction; subversion; as, the overthrow of the state.
- Defeat; discomfiture; as, the overthrow of enemies. Dryden.
- Degradation. Shak.
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