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Definition of Overthrew
1. overthrow [v] - See also: overthrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overthrew
Literary usage of Overthrew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1839)
"Crimson with fury, Oliver started up, overthrew chair and table, seized Noah by
the throat, shook him in the violence of his rage till his teeth chattered ..."
2. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"... by means of a neighbouring king, who had made war upon them several years with
various success, and at length overthrew them in a very great battle. ..."
3. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER XIII How that Sir Tristram gat him harness of a knight which was hurt,
and how he overthrew Sir Palomides. As for that, said Sir Palomides, ..."
4. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1897)
"Like the insurrection in Boston, three months earlier, which overthrew Sir Edmund
Andros, this bold stroke wore the aspect of a rising against the deposed ..."
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