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单词 overturner
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overturnern.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈtəːnə/, /ˈəʊvəˌtəːnə/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərˈˌtərnər/
Forms: see over- prefix and turner n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: overturn v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < overturn v. + -er suffix1.
A person who or (occasionally) thing which overturns something; an overthrower.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > overthrow of a person, institution, belief, etc. > one who or that which overthrows
supplanterc1390
subvertera1500
overthrower1548
subversor1548
downthringera1572
thringera1572
overthrow1581
overturner1591
prostrator1649
profligator1694
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Rebolvedor An ouerturner.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 97 Underminers of government,..overturners of Christendome.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 61 By..which, these Overturners of all above them have done such mighty Execution.
1780 C. Wesley Protestant Assoc. 22 Those ragged ministers of Fate, All law and order's over-turners.
1820 Examiner No. 619. 119/2 The only sure and final overturner of abuses.
1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. 274 The Overturners of the Monarchy.
1945 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 10 649/2 Aroused Americans may be trusted to deal effectively with would-be overturners without violating their hoary principles of free assemblage, free speech, free press.
1985 Sat. Evening Post 54 In that whole rabble of shrieking vine swingers, cliff climbers, roof scalers, canoe overturners..not one so much as barked a knee or drowned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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