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# overthrowest

«overthrowest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you overthrow** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you overthrow

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«overthrowest» means «you overthrow», a form of «overthrow»: To overthrow a ruler or government is to remove them from power by force. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overthrowest/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou overthrowest» = «you overthrow».

### examples

- And in the greatness of Thine excellency Thou overthrowest them that rise up against Thee; Thou sendest forth Thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble. (Torah EXO.15.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overthrowest/#x1)

### tests

ending -est (stem «overthrow», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overthrowest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overthrowest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.