Overturn
[əʊvə'tɜːn] or ['ovətɝn]
Definition
(noun.) an improbable and unexpected victory; 'the biggest upset since David beat Goliath'.
(verb.) turn from an upright or normal position; 'The big vase overturned'; 'The canoe tumped over'.
(verb.) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; 'The cat knocked over the flower vase'; 'the clumsy customer turned over the vase'; 'he tumped over his beer'.
Checker: Lorenzo--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
(v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
(v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.
(n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.
Inputed by Ethel
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Overthrow.
Typed by Elinor
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See OVERTHROW]
Inputed by Betty
Definition
v.t. to throw down or over: to subvert: to conquer: to ruin.—ns. O′verturn state of being overturned; Overturn′er.
Typist: Marietta
Examples
- They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My good sir, remarked Crispin, who had lighted a cigarette, you cannot overturn the whole complex civilization of the West in that manner. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Without culture you can knock down governments, overturn property relations, you can create excitement, but you cannot create a genuine revolution in the lives of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The wind strikes the front, but rarely touches the back of the plane, and so gains a great leverage that adds materially to its power to overturn the machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- An hour, a moment is sufficient to make him change from one extreme to another, and overturn what cost the greatest pain and labour to establish. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I WON'T confine myself to four--eight, sixteen, two-and-thirty, rather than say anything calculated to overturn the Doctor's plans. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And if he can't live there, he'll die there, sooner than he'll overturn the Doctor's plans. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Scarcely had the search commenced than the overturned cauldron was discovered, and with it the theft of the poisoned arrows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Stage-coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats were overturning, and boilers were bursting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Also, in such a case, supports at the side kept the car from overturning. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These traders upon religion he and his followers cast out, overturning the tables. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And this from which we run away, striking out the light and overturning one another into the street, is all that represents him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This almost overturns the trooper afresh, but he sets himself up with a great, rough, sounding clearance of his throat. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Harold