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overturned
o·ver·turn O0197200 (ō′vər-tûrn′)v. o·ver·turned, o·ver·turn·ing, o·ver·turns v.tr.1. a. To cause to turn over; upset or flip over: Large waves overturned the raft.b. To cause to fall over; knock or topple over: bumped the vase and overturned it.c. To ransack: found that the room had been overturned during the night.2. a. To cause the downfall, destruction, or ending of; overthrow or abolish. See Synonyms at overthrow.b. Law To invalidate or reverse (a decision) by legal means: "his continuing legal battles to overturn a draft-evasion conviction" (Robert Lipsyte).v.intr. To turn over or capsize: The car went off the road and overturned.n. (ō′vər-tûrn′)1. The act or process of overturning: the court's overturn of a ruling.2. The state of having been overturned.3. The periodic mixing or circulation of water in a lake or sea as a result of changing temperature of its layers.ThesaurusAdj. | 1. | overturned - having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket"upturned, upsetturned - moved around an axis or center |
overturnedadjectiveTurned over completely:capsized, inverted, upset, upside-down, upturned.overturned
overturned[′ō·vər‚tərnd] (geology) Of a fold or the side of a fold, tilted beyond the perpendicular. Also known as inverted; reversed. overturned
Synonyms for overturnedadj turned over completelySynonyms- capsized
- inverted
- upset
- upside-down
- upturned
Synonyms for overturnedadj having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottomSynonymsRelated Words |