overturn
推翻,推翻了,打翻了,打翻
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Definitions
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- : to cause to turn onto its side, face, or back; upset: to overturn a vase.
- : to destroy the power or validity of; overthrow; defeat: The conspiracy finally overturned the regime.The new findings have not overturned the theory itself.
- : to reverse: Rather than accept defeat, the company filed a complaint in federal appeals court to overturn the ruling.
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- : to turn onto its side, face, or back; capsize: When his canoe overturned, he lost scientific instruments and journals.
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- : the act of overturning.
- : the state of being overturned.
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Examples
The suit comes after his attempt to overturn the standards via executive order was rejected by a judge in state court last week.
Studies that build on the established body of evidence are more likely to be true than ones that appear to overturn it.
Should a self-respecting democracy have a Supreme Court like ours, with the power to overturn democratic legislation?
The Italian Futurists were prepared to overturn the world as they knew it to achieve their ideal world.
She retaliated by using her telekinetic powers to overturn their party bus.
If you can overturn a rock whose roots are embedded in the depths of ocean, you may hope to turn him from his purpose.
Such an assertion is not to be credited on any less evidence than what would suffice to overturn the law.
There was no necessity, as a revolutionist might imagine, to overturn the dynasty.
Their first trip was marked by an accident—Williams contriving to overturn the boat.
Reaching the dumping ground, standing between the handles of the wheel-barrow, Alfred attempted to overturn it.