Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overthrown"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Overthrow \O`ver*throw"\, v. t. [imp. {Overthrew}; p. p.
{Overthrown}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overthrowing}.]
1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
His wife overthrew the table. --Jer. Taylor.
2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to
make a ruin of; to destroy.
When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. --Dryden.
[Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion.
--Shak.
Syn: To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin;
subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish;
beat; rout.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
overthrown
adj : decisively defeated in combat [syn: {beaten}, {conquered}, {overcome},
{overwhelmed}, {routed}, {vanquished}]
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