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

Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.

One who overturns. South.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

ulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .

To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. -- To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. -- To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. -- To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or w…

An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor.

To tilt over; to overturn.

t of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

ps upon the serpent, and tears it to pieces; but in the scuffle the cradle happened to be overturned. L'Estrange.

The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate.…

To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly. These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns. Shak. This would subvert the principles of all knowledge. Locke.

To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.

as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor. -- To tip over, to overturn. -- To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope. -- To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

To throw down; to overturn. He topple crags from the precipice. Longfellow.

To overturn; to change. [R.] C. Leslie.

ut the lights. -- To turn over. (a) To change or reverse the position of; to overset; to overturn; to cause to roll over. (b) To transfer; as, to turn over business to another hand. (c) To read or examine, as a book, while, turning the leaves. "We turned o'er many books together." Shak. (d) To handle in business; to d…

To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. "Determined somehow to upset the situation." Mrs. Humphry Ward.