English Dictionary

overturn

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)n/

verb

(transitive or intransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset. / (transitive) To overthrow or destroy. / (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.

He accidentally overturned the table.

意味（1）

(transitive or intransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.

About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.

意味（2）

(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.

意味（3）

(law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.

意味（4）

(transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.

There were so many heroes for Leicester on an evening when they played with tremendous courage and belief to overturn the 2-1 deficit from the first leg, yet it was hard to look beyond Kasper Schmeichel for the game’s outstanding performer.

意味（5）

(intransitive) Of a body of water: to undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.