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词汇 overturning
释义 overturning
present participle ofoverturn
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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Turning upside down
ass
capsize
flip
go ass over (tea)kettleidiom
invert
inverted
invertible
loop the loopidiom
overturn
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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Court cases, orders & decisions
actionable
actionably
administer
admissibility
admissible
extinguishment
extrajudicial
extrajudicially
fatal accident inquiry
federal case
pettifoggery
pettifogging
plea bargain
plea bargaining
pleading
the Webster ruling
waiver
walk
walk freeidiom
wardship

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Elections
Winning and defeating

Examples of overturning


overturning

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The success of the project is in inverse proportion to its ambition - and these essays attempt a complete theological overturning of secular modernity.
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.
Yet judges had few qualms about overturning long-standing rating practices if those practices violated the judges' sense of justice.
Overturning is depicted by the presence of small spirals in the structures.
The rising column acts as such a disturbance, is augmented as it rises, and thus localizes one of the points of overturning.
However, the scales always remain separated and there is thus always a range of scales between the molecular and overturning scales which is actively turbulent.
However, progress in overturning the previous arrangements has been relatively modest to date.
Lengthscale evolution is measured, and the overturning and buoyancy lengthscales (associated with potential and kinetic energy, respectively) are found to characterize flow development.
Overturning verdicts and remanding cases, however, did little to specify the precise contours of the new doctrines.
This would require a wholesale overturning of staunch, old ways weighted down by institutional crust and the countless variations born of several centuries of practice.
Overturning may drive suspension and redistribution of solid acetylene on the lake bottom.
A depression forms in front of the vortices and eventually leads to overturning and entrainment of the top fluid.
In other words, to avoid overturning in real conditions, the human/humanoid must 'maintain balance', both dynamic and static.
However, in a rectangular geometry, the presence of lateral endwalls could stabilize the overturning state against travelling waves, causing this hysteresis.
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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