overthrow
/ˌoʊvɚˈθɹoʊ/ verb C2- To throw (something) so that it goes too far. · He overthrew first base, for an error.
He/she/it overthrows · Past overthrew · Past participle overthrown · -ing form overthrowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- overthrow
- He/she/it
- overthrows
- Past
- overthrew
- Past participle
- overthrown
- -ing form
- overthrowing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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Wickham--when she read, with somewhat clearer attention, a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself--her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.
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