Definition of overthrow

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Overthrow (v. t.) To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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Mat :: Mat (a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
Defeat :: Defeat (v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (v. t.) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
Overthrow :: Overthrow (v. t.) To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
Anatreptic :: Anatreptic (a.) Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
Level :: Level (v. t.) To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
Bouleversement :: Bouleversement (n.) Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
Yezdegerdian :: Yezdegerdian (a.) Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Mohammedans; as, the Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees..
Overset :: Overset (v. t.) To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot..
Dispute :: Dispute (v. t.) To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments..
Discomfit :: Discomfit (n.) Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) Hence, to overthrow; to subvert..
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.
Unpreach :: Unpreach (v. t.) To undo or overthrow by preaching.
Confusion :: Confusion (n.) Overthrow; defeat; ruin.
Treason :: Treason (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery..
Evert :: Evert (v. t.) To overthrow; to subvert.
Scatter :: Scatter (v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like..
Reversal :: Reversal (n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void..
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed..
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