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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