overthrow
/ˈoʊvɚˌθɹoʊ/ noun C2- A throw that goes too far. · He overthrew the ball and it went for four runs.
- A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
Plural overthrows
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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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