overturn

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Verb

overturn (overturns, present participle overturning; past and past participle overturned)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
2. (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
3. (legal, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
4. (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

Translations

• French: renverser, retourner, capoter
• German: überschlagen
• Italian: ribaltare, capovolgere
• Portuguese: capotar
• Spanish: volcar

Translations

• French: renverser
• German: verwerfen
• Spanish: derrocar

Translations

• French: casser
• Portuguese: anular, derrubar
• Spanish: casar

Noun

overturn (plural overturns)

1. A turning over or upside-down; inversion.
2. The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.

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