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topple

/top-uhl/US // ˈtɒp əl //UK // (ˈtɒpəl) //

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v.无主动词 verb
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    top·pled, top·pling.

    • : to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
    • : to lean over or jut, as if threatening to fall.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    top·pled, top·pling.

    • : to cause to topple.
    • : to overthrow, as from a position of authority: to topple the king.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbfall or knock over; overthrow

Examples

  • In 1977, Hassan Gouled Aptidon was close to being toppled as president of Djibouti for considering a khat ban.

  • Engineers warned that could result in segments of the fence toppling into the river if not fixed.

  • Engineers warned that could result in the fence toppling into the river if not fixed.

  • By comparison, the S&P 500 is teetering at such rarefied heights that a sudden blast of bad news could send it toppling.

  • As they topple over they bury carbon, therefore increasing the seabed’s potential as a carbon sink.

  • Obama has latched on to the failure of the embargo to topple the Castros as justification to shuffle the deck.

  • I push down on the pedal with my right leg and instead of propelling myself forward, I topple over sideways.

  • Others, like the Tehrike e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) vowed to topple the Pakistani state itself.

  • President Obama has weighed the options and concluded America does more harm than good when it sets out to topple regimes.

  • Margaret Thatcher had served under the Heath regime as Education Secretary and witnessed the miners topple the Conservative Party.

  • As they turned into red-hot ashes and began to topple over one by one into the glowing pile, Jess laughed delightedly.

  • It is enough to make the tallest chimney of the neighbourhood topple over with envy.

  • There would be a report, two reports, and he would topple over backwards to lie crumpled up and motionless.

  • The loungers fully expected to see Tad topple over backwards with a bullet in his body.

  • These congeal again, or are compressed into soft, filthy monumental masses, waiting their turn to topple into the waves at last.