Definition of Overthrown

1. Verb. (past participle of overthrow) ¹

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Definition of Overthrown

1. overthrow [v] - See also: overthrow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overthrown

overthin
overthink
overthinker
overthinkers
overthinking
overthinks
overthought
overthrew
overthrow
overthrowal
overthrowals
overthrower
overthrowers
overthroweth
overthrowing
overthrown
overthrows
overthrust
overthrust fault
overthrusts
overthwart
overthwartly
overthwartness
overtight
overtighten
overtightened
overtightening
overtightens
overtilde
overtildes

Literary usage of Overthrown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... Salt Alluvium—Nitrate of Soda — Lima — Unhealthy Country—Ruins of Callao, overthrown by an Earthquake—Recent subsidence—Elevated Shells on San Lorenzo, ..."

2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... overthrown those two Fell, and lay prone like lofty poplars hewn. Their fall Atrides Menelaus ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"... History had direct relation to his absorbed interest in the politics of shortly after his book was published, the Sonderbund was decisively overthrown. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"As the old notions of State rights have been overthrown in the economic and political world, and as the nation has taken over many of the early powers of ..."

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