Overturn

Quick meaning: Overturn is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
2. (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
3. (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
4. (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
5. A turning over or upside-down; inversion.
6. The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• overturns
• overturning
• overturned

Synonyms for overturn

Depending on context, synonyms include upset, annul, lift, rescind, revoke, reverse.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overthrow, reverse, override, lift, rescind, repeal.

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