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Definition of overthrow : 1. A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.
2. The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
3. The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head.
4. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
5. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

Synonyms:

bowl over, counteract, eradicate, countermand, override, cut down, demoralize, deprave, abrogate, nullify, tump over, trim back, remove, extirpate, annihilate, subvert, get down, tumble, supplant, thrashing, licking, vanquishment, set aside, annul, impose, vitiate, pervert, change, study at defeat, misdirect, revoke, profane, dusting, capsize, exterminate, bring down, revolutionize, whipping, countermine, depose, knock over, debauch, unhorse, trim down, swage, mental unsoundness, unbalance, end, turn back, cut, debase, put down, abolish, trim, rescind, turnover, vacate, cut back, let down, turn over, help, change by reversal, lift, sabotage, trimming, undermine, overrule, turn, repeal, weaken, tip over, drubbing, revolutionise, destroy, abate, take down, disorder, reverse, disturbance, derangement, terminate, suppress, move, massacre, visit, corrupt, topple, horizontal, demoralise, inflict, stamp out, reduce, prohibit, lower, invert, perturbation, land, oust, obliterate

foil, downfall, failure, beating, beat, outplay, crush, rout, conquer, defeat, quell, master, overturn, overcome, subdue, capture, whip, predominate, vanquish, subject, outdo, trump, overpower, trounce, checkmate, triumph, humble, collapse, win, surmount

rebel, revolt, upset, restructure, mutiny

Usage examples:

• At present they might possibly come here as separate states for love of Lacedaemon; in the other case one empire would scarcely attack another; for after joining the Peloponnesians to overthrow ours, they could only expect to see the same hands overthrow their own in the same way. - "The History of the Peloponnesian War", Thucydides.
• We marvel at the energy which must have been employed on their overthrow, no less than at the art which raised such blocks of stone and placed them in position. - "Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III.", John Symonds.
• I had formed a plan to overthrow the testimony of the company by having a key made to fit their pouch, introducing it at the trial and proving that outsiders might have keys as well as the agents. - "The Expressman and the Detective", Allan Pinkerton.