Synonyms:
overturn, turn_over, tip_over, tump_over
Meaning: turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
Synonyms:
overturn, tip_over, turn_over, upset, knock_over, bowl_over, tump_over
Meaning: cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
Synonyms:
overrule, overturn, override, overthrow, reverse
Meaning: rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"
Usage examples
We cannot overturn the whole scheme to accommodate the buzzard.
Neither robbers nor tempests befriended them, nor one lucky overturn to introduce them to the hero.
Henry was left free by the will of his mistress (Elizabeth Mann), but the heirs were making desperate efforts to overturn this instrument.
And supposing he were to do this several times under the heat of a scorching sun, might he not, being an expert, overturn more than one stout personage?
Before a year had passed a band of great Asiatic nobles entered into a conspiracy to overturn Michael, and replace him by Isaac Comnenus, the chief of one of the ancient Cappadocian houses, and the most popular general of the East.
Exactly at eight Hickey & Mooney, of the vaudeville team (unbooked) in the flat across the hall, would yield to the gentle influence of delirium tremens and begin to overturn chairs under the delusion that Hammerstein was pursuing them with a five-hundred-dollar-a-week contract.
At any rate, I'd as soon overturn that piece of priceless Sevres as tell her I must go before my date.' It sounds dreadfully weak, but he has some reason, and he pays for his imagination, which puts him (I should hate it) in the place of others and makes him feel, even against himself, their feelings, their appetites, their motives.