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Overturn   /ˈoʊvərtˌərn/   Listen
verb
Overturn  v. t.  (past & past part. overturned; pres. part. overturning)  
1.
To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
2.
To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
3.
To overpower; to conquer.
Synonyms: To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish.


noun
Overturn  n.  The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.





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"Overturn" Quotes from Famous Books



... say that Apollo will be one that is very haughty and will greatly lord it among gods and men all over the fruitful earth. Therefore, I greatly fear in heart and spirit that as soon as he sets the light of the sun, he will scorn this island—for truly I have but a hard, rocky soil—and overturn me and thrust me down with his feet in the depths of the sea; then will the great ocean wash deep above my head for ever, and he will go to another land such as will please him, there to make his temple and wooded ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod
... tearing in mad fury through the forests with their enormous ears, and tails, and trunks erect, their ponderous tusks glistening in the sunshine, and their wicked little eyes flashing like balls of fire as they knock down, rend asunder, and overturn all that comes in ...
— The Gorilla Hunters • R.M. Ballantyne
... wins the continent as the forfeited property of rebels; the right of taxing those that are left as reduced subjects; and the power of binding them slaves: and the single die which determines this unparalleled event is, whether we support our independence or she overturn it. This is coming to the point at once. Here is the touchstone to try men by. He that is not a supporter of the independent States of America in the same degree that his religious and political principles would suffer him to support the government of any ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
... receiving, or returning, such foul Reproaches." This is great Moderation, and such as I heartily approve, being dispos'd to forgive the Punishment due by Law to any Fault, when the Non-execution of it will not overturn the Government. And I am willing to hope, that since you can think that such bitter Adversaries to you, as these licentious Jacobites are, should only be smartly replied to, and not be prosecuted by the Government, you ...
— A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) • Anthony Collins
... he replied, "that corpses never sue for damages, but maimed people do. And the next time I have a overturn I shall go round and keerfully examine the passengers. Them as is dead I shall let alone; but them as is mutilated I shall finish with the king-bolt! Dead folks don't sue. They ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4 • Charles Farrar Browne


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