1. To make a strident sound; SYN. blare.
2. To use explosives on; SYN. strafe, shell.
1. To cause to fall or collapse.
2. To collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack; SYN. collapse.
3. To fail to operate correctly; to break.
4. To lose control of one's emotions; SYN. lose it.
5. To make ineffective; SYN. crush.
6. When something decomposes or reduces to its smallest parts or is reduced by someone to its smallest parts, it breaks down.
To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.
(Irregular preterit, past participle: overthrew, overthrown).
To cause the downfall of; of rulers; SYN. overturn, bring down.
1. To cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; SYN. tip over, turn over, upset, knock over, bowl over.
2. To turn from an upright or normal position; SYN. turn over, tip over.
To demolish; to destroy; to degrade
1. To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
2. To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
3. Overthrow; pervert.