Overturning
[,ovɚ'tɝn]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overturn
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Examples
- 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.
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