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Definition of Overthrown
1. overthrow [v] - See also: overthrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overthrown
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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