The meaning of OVERTURN is to cause to turn over : upset. How to use overturn in a sentence.

OVERTURN definition: 1. to (cause to) turn over: 2. to change a legal decision: 3. If you overturn someone's majority…. Learn more.

OVERTURN meaning: 1. to (cause to) turn over: 2. to change a legal decision: 3. If you overturn someone's majority…. Learn more.

To turn over or capsize: The car went off the road and overturned. 1. The act or process of overturning: the court's overturn of a ruling. 2. The state of having been overturned. 3. The periodic mixing or circulation of water in a lake or sea as …

OVERTURNED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of overturn 2. to (cause to) turn over: 3. to change a legal…. Learn more.

To overturn something is to either flip it upside down or to invalidate it. An amateur kayaker might overturn her boat, while a judge may decide to overturn a previous judgment. When you overturn a wheelbarrow or a tricycle, you literally turn it over.

Synonyms for OVERTURNED: capsized, collapsed, fell, upset, toppled, turned over, keeled, upended; Antonyms of OVERTURNED: righted, stood up, erected, raised, straightened (up)

If something overturns or if you overturn it, it turns upside down or on its side. The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall.

Definition of overturn verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] if something overturns, or if somebody overturns it, it turns into a position in which the top of it is where the bottom of it normally is or on its side. The car skidded and overturned.

If something overturns or if you overturn it, it turns upside down or on its side. The motorcycle veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall. Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of wine. If someone in authority overturns a legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid.