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  • verb Present participle of overstrow.

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  • See how the bold usurper mounts the seat Of royal majesty; how overstrowing Perils with pleasure, pointing ev'ry threat With bugbear death, by torments over-awing Thy frighted subjects; or by favours drawing Their tempted hearts to his unjust retreat;

    Emblems, divine and moral 1812

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