Definition of Overturn

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Overturn

To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.

To overpower; to conquer.

The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.

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Overturn Quotations

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.
Herodotus

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Georges Bataille

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
Rick Boucher

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.
James Baker

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
Ruth Hubbard

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
Ian Anderson

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
Stephanie Herseth

Overturn Translations

overturn in French is chavirons, chavirent, chavirez, culbuter, chavirer
overturn in Latin is perverto perverti perversum
overturn in Spanish is tantear, trastornar, vuelco

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