overturned
被推翻的,推翻的,推翻了,被推翻
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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
I was convicted a year later and sentenced to death—a charge later overturned by the Supreme Court when it called for a retrial.
That indictment was then overturned by a second grand jury that decided not to bring charges against the officer.
In late July, the judge overturned the decision, citing a 2009 document that was “overlooked” during the initial proceedings.
Frostee Rucker had a one-game suspension overturned by Goodell in 2007 despite two counts of spousal battery.
Many are still sorting through overturned barrels and rebuilding their production facilities.
Robert was out there under the shed, reclining in the shade against the sloping keel of the overturned boat.
When I was first acting as post-boy my chaise got overturned, but on the whole I have been pretty fortunate.
The birds immediately swarmed round this so vigorously, that they even overturned the lantern once or twice.
But that uncertainty which is proverbial in human affairs stepped within the circle of his life and overturned his plans.
Each of the boys was a good swimmer, and soon they were all clinging to the canoe, which had completely overturned.