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Overturn vs. Topple — What's the Difference?

Overturn vs. Topple — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Overturn and Topple

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Overturn

Overturn is a video game developed by Japanese company Studio Zan for WiiWare. It was released in Japan on December 2, 2008, in North America on August 3, 2009, and in Europe on February 12, 2010, by Gamebridge as Overturn: Mecha Wars.

Topple

Topple is a game by American developer Chris DeLeon and published by ngmoco for the iOS platform. It is available for download on the iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store or iTunes.

Overturn

To cause to turn over; upset or flip over
Large waves overturned the raft.

Topple

To push or knock over
Bumped into the table and toppled the lamp.

Overturn

To cause to fall over; knock or topple over
Bumped the vase and overturned it.
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Topple

To bring about the downfall, destruction, or ending of.

Overturn

To ransack
Found that the room had been overturned during the night.

Topple

To defeat, as in a contest
Toppled the league leader.

Overturn

To cause the downfall, destruction, or ending of; overthrow or abolish.

Topple

To totter and fall
Buildings that toppled in the earthquake.

Overturn

(Law) To invalidate or reverse (a decision) by legal means
"his continuing legal battles to overturn a draft-evasion conviction" (Robert Lipsyte).

Topple

(transitive) To push or throw over
The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator.

Overturn

To turn over or capsize
The car went off the road and overturned.

Topple

To overturn

Overturn

The act or process of overturning
The court's overturn of a ruling.

Topple

To overthrow something.
Topple one's rival

Overturn

The state of having been overturned.

Topple

(intransitive) To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so.
The pile of pennies began to topple.

Overturn

The periodic mixing or circulation of water in a lake or sea as a result of changing temperature of its layers.

Topple

To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
Though castles topple on their warders' heads.

Overturn

To turn over, capsize or upset.

Topple

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

Overturn

(transitive) To overthrow or destroy.

Topple

Fall down, as if collapsing;
The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it

Overturn

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

Topple

Cause to topple or tumble by pushing

Overturn

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

Overturn

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

Overturn

A turning over or upside-down; inversion.

Overturn

The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.

Overturn

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

Overturn

To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.

Overturn

To overpower; to conquer.

Overturn

The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.

Overturn

The act of upsetting something;
He was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed

Overturn

An improbable and unexpected victory;
The biggest upset since David beat Goliath

Overturn

Turn from an upright or normal position;
The big vase overturned
The canoe tumped over

Overturn

Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position;
The cat knocked over the flower vase
The clumsy customer turned over the vase
He tumped over his beer

Overturn

Rule against;
The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill

Overturn

Cause the downfall of; of rulers;
The Czar was overthrown
Subvert the ruling class

Overturn

Annul by recalling or rescinding;
He revoked the ban on smoking
Lift an embargo
Vacate a death sentence

Overturn

Change radically;
E-mail revolutionized communication in academe

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