toweorpan

• tōwerpan, tōworpan, tōwurpan, tōwyrpan

Equivalent to tō- +‎ weorpan.

• IPA^(key): /toːˈwe͜or.pɑn/, [toːˈwe͜orˠ.pɑn]

tōweorpan

1. to throw in different directions, scatter, disperse
2. (literal or figurative) to overturn, destroy, demolish
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Æfter þǣm Rōmeburg ġetimbred wæs V hunde wintrum ⁊ XXXIII, Hannibal, Pena cyning, besǣt Saguntum Ispania burg...⁊ þǣr wæs sittende eahta mōnaþ, oþ hē hīe ealle hungre ācwealde, ⁊ þā burg tōwearp....

     533 years after Rome was built, Hannibal, king of the Carthaginians, laid siege to Saguntum, a city in Hispania...and he sat there for eight months, until he killed them all with hunger, and destroyed the city...

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Sē hālga tōwearp ēac sum hǣðengyld, and wolde āhēawan ǣnne hēahne pīnbēam, sē wæs ǣr ġehālgod þām hǣðenum godum

     The saint also overthrew an idol, and wanted also to cut down a pine tree that was hallowed to the heathen gods.

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “TŌWEORPAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “TŌWEORPAN supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.