| 词汇 | overturn |
| 释义 | overturn verb uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈtɜːn/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈtɝːn/ overturnverb (GO UPSIDE DOWN)[ I or T ] to (cause to) turn over: 打翻，弄翻;（使）倾覆;（使）翻倒 The car skidded off the road, hit a tree and overturned.汽车滑出道路，撞到树上后翻了。 The intruder had overturned some of the furniture in the house.入室窃贼翻动了屋子里的一些家具。 The rioters overturned several cars and set them alight.暴徒们掀翻了几辆汽车并将其付之一炬。 An articulated lorry has overturned on the south-bound carriageway, shedding its load.一辆铰接式卡车在南行车道上翻车了，货物散落一地。 A truck driver died last night when his vehicle overturned.昨晚一辆卡车翻了车，司机死亡。 She overturned the car, but walked away from it without a scratch.她翻了车，可是却平安无事，一点擦伤都没有。 Vandals smashed windows and overturned cars in the downtown shopping district.捣乱分子在市中心的商业区砸烂窗户并掀翻汽车。 Turning upside down ass capsize flip go ass over (tea)kettleidiom invert inverted invertible loop the loopidiom supinate upend upset upside down upturned overturnverb (CHANGE)[ T ]formal to change a legal decision: 推翻（法律裁决） The Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision.上诉法庭推翻了早先作出的裁决。 [ T ]UK If you overturn someone's majority in an election in the UK, you defeat them: （在英国大选中）因获得多数席位而获胜 The Labour candidate unexpectedly overturned the long-standing Tory majority.工党候选人出乎意料地击败了长期以来占多数议席的保守党。 Court cases, orders & decisions actionable actionably administer admissibility admissible extinguishment extrajudicial extrajudicially fatal accident inquiry federal case pettifogging plea bargain plea bargaining pleading post bail the Webster ruling walk walk freeidiom wardship witness to something You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Elections Winning and defeating overturn | American Dictionaryoverturn verb[ I/T ] us/ˌoʊ·vərˈtɜrn/ to turn over, or to cause something to turn over: [ I ]The truck overturned, spilling its cargo. To overturn a decision or judgment is for a court to change it so it will not be in effect: [ T ]The court of appeals overturned her conviction and ordered a new trial. overturn | Business Englishoverturn verb[ T ] uk /ˌəʊvəˈtɜːn/us LAW to change a legal decision: overturn a decision/verdict/rulingThe Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision. Examples of overturnoverturn There were limits to the extent to which the post-1945 consensus could be overturned. While this attitude was challenged and overturned by subsequent academic re-evaluation, steps towards mainstream recognition of the poverty of initial criticism were only tentative. We hope, by overturning the conventional approach to rendering, to find a way of handling ruins. Cladistics has revolutionized systematics, overturning some traditional taxonomic categories and firmly establishing others. The second chapter, on the definition of life, goes beyond the traditional notions of life, and re-examines its properties and overturns conventional thinking. The folds are commonly open and symmetrical, locally tight and overturned. We have argued that it is more natural to consider the specification that the conditional variance decreases to zero and subsequently overturned his result. By the end of the novel, the text overturns the very dichotomy between mindless passion and considered affection. The government also overturned its earlier decision not to accredit foreign diplomats to observe the elections. Without economic or political independence, women could only manipulate the ideology to their best advantage rather than overturning it completely. On the floor, near the overturned table and broken dish, lies a spoon. There is no subtler, no surer way of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. Which latter is not however to say that" correct thinking" overturns society. There are those who accept him as a subverter of meanings, including his own, an anti-philosopher, a disconcerting jester, gleefully overturning accepted habits of thought. A former commoner thus overturns the arrogance of those who dominate the royal ' ' court' ' and the courtroom. See all examples of overturn These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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