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 →

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 →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.