overturn

Definitions

1. verb

   To turn over, capsize or upset.

   Examples

   • About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.
   • We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.
   ≈tip over
2. verb

   To overthrow or destroy.

3. verb

   To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.

   Examples

   • In a report for the Sun on Sunday, Barak claimed that Andrew is consulting lawyers about overturning that settlement.
   • Harvey was rightfully convicted. It’s unfortunate that the court has overturned his conviction. As a survivor, I am beyond disappointed.
4. verb

   To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.

   Example

   • There were so many heroes for Leicester on an evening when they played with tremendous courage and belief to overturn the 2-1 deficit from the first leg, yet it was hard to look beyond Kasper Schmeichel for the game’s outstanding performer.
5. verb

   To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.

6. noun

   A turning over or upside-down; inversion.

7. noun

   The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.