To turn over, capsize or upset.
About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.
To overthrow or destroy.
To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
In a report for the Sun on Sunday, Barak claimed that Andrew is consulting lawyers about overturning that settlement.
A turning over or upside-down; inversion.
The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.
From Middle English overturnen, equivalent to over- + turn. Compare also Middle English overterven (“to overturn”), see terve.
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