v. [UNDER-1 4, 7.]
† 1. trans. To overturn, overthrow. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Deut. vii. 5. The auters of hem vndurturneth [L. subvertite], and brekith togidres the ymagis. Ibid., Ezek. xxvi. 12. Thei shulen vndirturne thi … housis.
2. To turn under ground; to bury.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, V. viii. 670. Those … doe presently thereupon bestow an earing vpon such ground, and so vnderturne the said stubble and weedes.
