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.
O"ver*throw` (?), n. 1. The act of overthrowing; the state of being
overthrow; ruin.
Your sudden overthrow much rueth me.
Spenser.
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2. (a) (Baseball) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a
player's head. (b) (Cricket) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder,
so that the striker makes an additional run.
O"ver*thwart" ("vr*thwrt"), a. 1. Having a transverse position; placed
or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors."
Dryden.
2. Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing.
"Overthwart humor." Clarendon.
O"ver*thwart", adv. Across; crosswise; transversely. "Y'clenched
overthwart and endelong." Chaucer.
O"ver*thwart", prep. Across; from alde to side of. "Huge trees
overthwart one another." Milton.
O"ver*thwart`, n. That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance;
opposition. [Obs.] Surrey.