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Definition of overturn in English: overturnverb əʊvəˈtəːnˌoʊvərˈtərn [with object]1Tip (something) over so that it is on its side or upside down. 打翻;掀翻 the crowd proceeded to overturn cars and set them on fire 人群接着把汽车掀翻并点火烧车。 Example sentencesExamples - Centred on the village of Clonee, the tornado overturned cars, ripped up poles and trees and damaged houses and gardens.
- Streetlights toppled over, trees were uprooted and some cars were overturned.
- At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
- A red-haired woman is taken away from the table after she overturns a full bowl of food.
- Vehicles were overturned, and bonfires were lit, one with a car as its main ingredient, and about 40 arrests were made.
- Former Albion Rovers, Meadowbank and Shrewsbury player who once overturned a teammate's car on the way to buy a paper.
- It hit a local village, overturning boats and snapping trees like matchsticks.
- It was overturning cars and knocking over down buildings, trying desperately to catch Jordan.
- A newsagent's shop, pub, sex shop and a car were set alight and two other vehicles were overturned as riot police took to the streets in Burnley, Lancs.
- In one incident, an articulated lorry was overturned while passengers in a car also had a lucky escape when their vehicle crashed through a nearby wall.
- Hopefully I would not get to a point where I was totally at one with the river because I had overturned the boat.
- With that, the band thanked the sweaty crowd, threw down their guitars, overturned the drums and left without an encore.
- Suddenly, a storm came and huge waves almost overturned his boat.
- A stuntman who has overturned cars and traded punches with Hollywood's finest is to turn his attention to helping save a little girl's life.
- The zombies may be slow and weak, but they were still able to overturn a parked car.
- They overturned tables and threw chairs around, smashed glassware, and threatened and insulted employees.
- More than 4,000 students overturned cars and threw bottles out of windows at a university in Jiujiang, in the southern province of Jiangxi.
- Their ordeal came to an end when the hijackers overturned their car at 04: 00 on Sunday morning.
- They threw objects at him, overturned his car, which exploded.
- Police in riot gear were called out at the campus after several cars were overturned, fires were started and mayhem ensued.
Synonyms fall, tumble, overbalance, tip, keel, drop, pitch, plunge, capsize, collapse, founder, plummet, dive, lose one's balance, go head over heels - 1.1no object Turn over and come to rest upside down.
a coach hit a car and overturned 大客车撞上了一辆轿车后翻仰在地。 Example sentencesExamples - At least four cars overturned Thursday evening near the village of Mekece, about halfway on its journey from Istanbul to Ankara.
- The sailing boats and one of the rescue boats overturned, and police were brought in to help, along with an additional rescue boat from the cadets.
- The tragedy happened when the Vauxhall hit the central reservation and overturned, coming to rest on the hard shoulder.
- It appeared that the vehicle had overturned and rolled a number of times before coming to rest on the roadside facing the opposite direction to which it was travelling.
- The boat overturned, and the people in it were swept into the foaming water, but were retrieved.
- According to survivors the boat overturned in heavy seas in a matter of minutes, leaving most of the passengers trapped inside.
- The boat overturned about 150 yards from the cave entrance and at least three of the victims apparently became trapped beneath the boat.
- It came to rest facing oncoming traffic, while the lorry also slewed around and shed its load, eventually overturning and ending up upside-down on the grass verge.
- The car then overturned, coming to rest on its roof on the hard shoulder.
- A police officer escaped a bizarre accident with only minor injuries on Monday when a Port Authority crane overturned and smashed the boat he was in.
- It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning.
- All six men were thrown out of the boat as it overturned.
- A Bury fire crew were called when the car overturned near to a petrol station on Stand Lane, Bury, at 3.40 am on Sunday.
- There is a moment of recognition and reconciliation before the boat overturns, and both, locked in a final embrace, are drowned.
- Any rower whose boat overturns in the ship channel faces a tough job getting to dry land safely.
- The initial report was that two Marine Corps safety boats had overturned near the reefs just over the cliffs from our squadron, and five personnel were unaccounted for.
- The boat almost overturned as it made a sharp turn, back toward the approaching boat.
- There were delays on the A419 after a car overturned.
- The car overturned and rolled down an embankment, ending on its roof at the bottom of a grass bank off the M61 motorway on the outskirts of Bolton.
- Three people were injured in the second accident in the north of the county when their car overturned on the Fanore road outside Lisdoonvarna at about 6pm.
Synonyms capsize, turn turtle, keel over, tip over, topple over, turn over, overbalance, turn topsy-turvy Nautical pitchpole upset, tip over, topple over, turn over, throw over, overthrow, knock over, upend, invert, turn topsy-turvy informal roll Scottish & Northern Irish cowp archaic overset
2Abolish, invalidate, or reverse (a previous system, decision, situation, etc.) the results overturned previous findings 结果推翻了先前的发现。 he fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery 为了推翻持械抢劫的判决他奋斗了八年。 Example sentencesExamples - Residents hope they can overturn the decision.
- I suspect that it will be raised time and time again until a future Government overturns that very silly decision of this Labour Government.
- While these men were not social revolutionaries bent on overturning the slave system in one bold stroke, nor were they solely foot draggers content to slow production.
- Many of the wars which have taken place during the historical period can be traced at least in part to such causes; and not a few governments or social systems have been overturned because of food issues.
- He introduced reliable methods of assessment and measurement, and an epidemiological framework, and thereby overturned many of the previous conclusions.
- And this new science has completely overturned traditional ideas about what children are like.
- Subvert the gender system to overturn capitalism.
- Such trends have been successfully overturned overseas, and with general public acceptance.
- They will then be able to use the examinations appeals process to try to get the decisions overturned.
- She said she had taken on her chairmanship in December 2003, determined to overturn a previous board decision not to renew Mr Ramsay's contract.
- "The disqualification was overturned on a technicality when the infringement was obvious.
- Many local people feel the new procedures limit their chances to overturn decisions with which they disagree.
- The Revolution redefined the cultural values signifying social prestige, and overturned the juridical system that had upheld status distinctions in the old regime.
- In so doing, it is overturning all existing relations between states and class.
- York District Sports Council does not further the aims or benefits of community sport by disparaging this campaign, nor do they have the authority to overturn a democratic decision made two and a half years ago.
- Whether he can realistically hope to overturn the sizeable Labour majority in Barking is perhaps doubtful.
- This situation can only be overturned if power is instituted from below.
- Let's hope the referee sees sense and overturns his decision.
- The Electoral College would never have survived as a quaint anachronism of the American political system if its actions overturned the will of the people.
- The regime has effectively overturned the principle of "One man, one vote".
Synonyms cancel, reverse, rescind, repeal, revoke, retract, countermand, withdraw, take back, rule against, disallow, override, overrule, veto, set aside, quash, overthrow, repudiate, recant, annul, nullify, declare null and void, invalidate, negate, void, abrogate Law vacate archaic recall
noun ˈəʊvətəːnˈoʊvərˌtərn rare 1An act of overturning something. Example sentencesExamples - This sounds similar to earlier rumors of an overturn.
- And that this explanation establishes the objective necessity for the overturn of these social relations if human progress is to resume.
- After the overturn of the Qing dynasty, Chinese intellectuals turned their eyes to Western countries and sought new ideas.
- For the most part the only people who actually bothered to look at the registration rolls and allow the overturn of bogus objections were a few retirees who volunteer as polling officials during elections.
- We had five overturned sledge accidents - every one of our sledges suffered an overturn or two, but luckily no significant damage was incurred.
- 1.1Ecology mass noun The occasional (typically twice yearly) mixing of the water of a thermally stratified lake.
〔生态〕(尤指水温分层的湖水每年两次的)湖水对流 Example sentencesExamples - In addition oceanic overturn might have brought biologically toxic bottom waters to the surface during periods of climatic change.
- Some of the largest mafic magmatic events may be related to catastrophic mantle overturn events or slab avalanches.
- The pattern of polygonal ridges bounding dish-shaped depressions is interpreted as the product primarily of embryonic overturn of this gravitationally unstable system.
Definition of overturn in US English: overturnverbˌōvərˈtərnˌoʊvərˈtərn [with object]1Tip (something) over so that it is on its side or upside down. 打翻;掀翻 the crowd proceeded to overturn cars and set them on fire 人群接着把汽车掀翻并点火烧车。 Example sentencesExamples - The zombies may be slow and weak, but they were still able to overturn a parked car.
- At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
- Centred on the village of Clonee, the tornado overturned cars, ripped up poles and trees and damaged houses and gardens.
- Vehicles were overturned, and bonfires were lit, one with a car as its main ingredient, and about 40 arrests were made.
- It was overturning cars and knocking over down buildings, trying desperately to catch Jordan.
- Suddenly, a storm came and huge waves almost overturned his boat.
- They threw objects at him, overturned his car, which exploded.
- A red-haired woman is taken away from the table after she overturns a full bowl of food.
- Hopefully I would not get to a point where I was totally at one with the river because I had overturned the boat.
- With that, the band thanked the sweaty crowd, threw down their guitars, overturned the drums and left without an encore.
- Their ordeal came to an end when the hijackers overturned their car at 04: 00 on Sunday morning.
- A stuntman who has overturned cars and traded punches with Hollywood's finest is to turn his attention to helping save a little girl's life.
- Streetlights toppled over, trees were uprooted and some cars were overturned.
- Former Albion Rovers, Meadowbank and Shrewsbury player who once overturned a teammate's car on the way to buy a paper.
- More than 4,000 students overturned cars and threw bottles out of windows at a university in Jiujiang, in the southern province of Jiangxi.
- A newsagent's shop, pub, sex shop and a car were set alight and two other vehicles were overturned as riot police took to the streets in Burnley, Lancs.
- In one incident, an articulated lorry was overturned while passengers in a car also had a lucky escape when their vehicle crashed through a nearby wall.
- Police in riot gear were called out at the campus after several cars were overturned, fires were started and mayhem ensued.
- It hit a local village, overturning boats and snapping trees like matchsticks.
- They overturned tables and threw chairs around, smashed glassware, and threatened and insulted employees.
Synonyms fall, tumble, overbalance, tip, keel, drop, pitch, plunge, capsize, collapse, founder, plummet, dive, lose one's balance, go head over heels - 1.1no object Turn over and come to rest upside down, typically as the result of an accident.
翻仰过来 a large housetrailer overturned in the middle of the road Example sentencesExamples - The car then overturned, coming to rest on its roof on the hard shoulder.
- It came to rest facing oncoming traffic, while the lorry also slewed around and shed its load, eventually overturning and ending up upside-down on the grass verge.
- A police officer escaped a bizarre accident with only minor injuries on Monday when a Port Authority crane overturned and smashed the boat he was in.
- It appeared that the vehicle had overturned and rolled a number of times before coming to rest on the roadside facing the opposite direction to which it was travelling.
- According to survivors the boat overturned in heavy seas in a matter of minutes, leaving most of the passengers trapped inside.
- The tragedy happened when the Vauxhall hit the central reservation and overturned, coming to rest on the hard shoulder.
- A Bury fire crew were called when the car overturned near to a petrol station on Stand Lane, Bury, at 3.40 am on Sunday.
- At least four cars overturned Thursday evening near the village of Mekece, about halfway on its journey from Istanbul to Ankara.
- The car overturned and rolled down an embankment, ending on its roof at the bottom of a grass bank off the M61 motorway on the outskirts of Bolton.
- There were delays on the A419 after a car overturned.
- The boat almost overturned as it made a sharp turn, back toward the approaching boat.
- The sailing boats and one of the rescue boats overturned, and police were brought in to help, along with an additional rescue boat from the cadets.
- The initial report was that two Marine Corps safety boats had overturned near the reefs just over the cliffs from our squadron, and five personnel were unaccounted for.
- The boat overturned about 150 yards from the cave entrance and at least three of the victims apparently became trapped beneath the boat.
- All six men were thrown out of the boat as it overturned.
- There is a moment of recognition and reconciliation before the boat overturns, and both, locked in a final embrace, are drowned.
- The boat overturned, and the people in it were swept into the foaming water, but were retrieved.
- It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning.
- Any rower whose boat overturns in the ship channel faces a tough job getting to dry land safely.
- Three people were injured in the second accident in the north of the county when their car overturned on the Fanore road outside Lisdoonvarna at about 6pm.
Synonyms capsize, turn turtle, keel over, tip over, topple over, turn over, overbalance, turn topsy-turvy upset, tip over, topple over, turn over, throw over, overthrow, knock over, upend, invert, turn topsy-turvy
2Abolish, invalidate, or reverse (a previous system, decision, situation, etc.) the results overturned previous findings 结果推翻了先前的发现。 he fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery 为了推翻持械抢劫的判决他奋斗了八年。 Example sentencesExamples - The Electoral College would never have survived as a quaint anachronism of the American political system if its actions overturned the will of the people.
- Residents hope they can overturn the decision.
- The regime has effectively overturned the principle of "One man, one vote".
- "The disqualification was overturned on a technicality when the infringement was obvious.
- Such trends have been successfully overturned overseas, and with general public acceptance.
- While these men were not social revolutionaries bent on overturning the slave system in one bold stroke, nor were they solely foot draggers content to slow production.
- Let's hope the referee sees sense and overturns his decision.
- She said she had taken on her chairmanship in December 2003, determined to overturn a previous board decision not to renew Mr Ramsay's contract.
- Whether he can realistically hope to overturn the sizeable Labour majority in Barking is perhaps doubtful.
- They will then be able to use the examinations appeals process to try to get the decisions overturned.
- York District Sports Council does not further the aims or benefits of community sport by disparaging this campaign, nor do they have the authority to overturn a democratic decision made two and a half years ago.
- The Revolution redefined the cultural values signifying social prestige, and overturned the juridical system that had upheld status distinctions in the old regime.
- Subvert the gender system to overturn capitalism.
- Many of the wars which have taken place during the historical period can be traced at least in part to such causes; and not a few governments or social systems have been overturned because of food issues.
- He introduced reliable methods of assessment and measurement, and an epidemiological framework, and thereby overturned many of the previous conclusions.
- In so doing, it is overturning all existing relations between states and class.
- Many local people feel the new procedures limit their chances to overturn decisions with which they disagree.
- This situation can only be overturned if power is instituted from below.
- And this new science has completely overturned traditional ideas about what children are like.
- I suspect that it will be raised time and time again until a future Government overturns that very silly decision of this Labour Government.
Synonyms cancel, reverse, rescind, repeal, revoke, retract, countermand, withdraw, take back, rule against, disallow, override, overrule, veto, set aside, quash, overthrow, repudiate, recant, annul, nullify, declare null and void, invalidate, negate, void, abrogate
nounˈoʊvərˌtərnˈōvərˌtərn rare 1An act of turning over or upsetting something; a revolution, subversion, or reversal. 〈罕〉推翻,颠覆;翻转;革命 Example sentencesExamples - After the overturn of the Qing dynasty, Chinese intellectuals turned their eyes to Western countries and sought new ideas.
- For the most part the only people who actually bothered to look at the registration rolls and allow the overturn of bogus objections were a few retirees who volunteer as polling officials during elections.
- This sounds similar to earlier rumors of an overturn.
- And that this explanation establishes the objective necessity for the overturn of these social relations if human progress is to resume.
- We had five overturned sledge accidents - every one of our sledges suffered an overturn or two, but luckily no significant damage was incurred.
- 1.1Ecology The occasional (typically twice yearly) mixing of the water of a thermally stratified lake.
〔生态〕(尤指水温分层的湖水每年两次的)湖水对流 Example sentencesExamples - The pattern of polygonal ridges bounding dish-shaped depressions is interpreted as the product primarily of embryonic overturn of this gravitationally unstable system.
- In addition oceanic overturn might have brought biologically toxic bottom waters to the surface during periods of climatic change.
- Some of the largest mafic magmatic events may be related to catastrophic mantle overturn events or slab avalanches.
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