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n.
The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
superl.
Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
v. t.
To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
n.
The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
a.
Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
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Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.
a.
Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Mohammedans; as, the Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees.
a.
To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.
n.
To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
v. t.
To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
p. p.
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v. t.
To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies.
v. t.
Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
v. t.
To undo or overthrow by preaching.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
v. t.
Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
v. t.
To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall.
a.
Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.
v. i.
Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
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