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OVERTHROW

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overthrow I., past overthrew, part. trec. overthrown verb tranzitiv

1. a răsturna (şi fig.) a doborî.

2. a nimici, a înfrânge, a învinge.

overthrow II. substantiv

1. răsturnare, doborâre (şi fig.).

2. nimicire, înfrângere.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Not only was she overthrown.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

As that was the case, neither Jane, to whom I related the whole, nor I, thought it necessary to make our knowledge public; for of what use could it apparently be to any one, that the good opinion which all the neighbourhood had of him should then be overthrown?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He was overthrown.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. 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.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Furthermore, it was remarkably easy to overthrow a dog taken by surprise; while a dog, thus overthrown, invariably exposed for a moment the soft underside of its neck—the vulnerable point at which to strike for its life.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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