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To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.

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(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 6-1)
(RQ:Scott Tales of the Crusaders)
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Appleton & Company|D. Appleton and Company,(nb...)|year=1856|page=104|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GTlEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA104|oclc=692530910|passage=''Wickedness often overthrows the health of the sinner.'' Go to the hospital, and see how many have ruined their health by their course of life. That drunkard. That glutton. That debauchee. Nine-tenths of the suffering from disease originates in the wickedness of the sinner.
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To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
(RQ:Tyndale NT)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed R. Norton for (w)(nb...)|year=1650|oclc=838283213|title2=The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living.(nb...)|section2=section VI (Of Contentedness in All Estates and Accidents)|edition2=5th corrected|location2=London|publisher2=Printed for Richard Royston(nb...)|year2=1656|page2=161|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=InJnAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA161|oclc2=43167441|passage=''Pittacus'' was a wiſe and valiant man, but his wife overthrew the Table when he had invited his friends: upon which the good man to excuſe her incivility and his own miſfortune, ſaid, That every man had one evil, and he was moſt happy that had but that alone; (..)
(RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works).|pages=451–452|pageref=451|passage=I have no parents, friends, nor brothers left; / By ſtern (w) all of life bereft. / Then when the walls of Thebes he overthrew, / His fatal hand my royal father ſlew; / He ſlew Aetion, but deſpoil'd him not; / Nor in his hate the funeral rites forgot; (..)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for J. Dixwell,(nb...)|year=1780?|page=118|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQpgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA118|oclc=723452062|passage=When they have found the Trees on which they elk lean, they cut and ſaw them, ſo that when the ''Elk'' comes, he overthrows the Tree and falls with it; and being unable to riſe, is ſo taken alive.
A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force; usurpation.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
(quote-book)|year=1891|page=352|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/historyofninetee00boyn/page/352/mode/1up|passage=But Judge Livingstone decided that no resistence to law, however extensive or violent, is treason if overthrow of the government is not its object.
(RQ:Orwell Animal Farm)
(quote-book) in 1955
An act of throwing something to the ground; an overturning.
To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
(quote-book) son was a teammate of Lupoli, sued the young pitcher for $15,000 in damages.
A throw that goes too far.
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*(quote-web)
A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
(quote-book) All throws must be "backed-up" by the nearest available fielder to prevent overthrows at both the bowler's and the wicket-keeper's ends. Nothing is more depressing than a fielding side giving away overthrows from bad throwing and backing-up.
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