overturn

verb

1. 倾倒；倾覆；翻掉
   if sth overturns , or if sb overturns it, it turns upside down or on its side
   1. The car skidded and overturned.
      汽车打滑翻倒了。
   2. He stood up quickly, overturning his chair.
      他猛然站起来，弄翻了椅子。
2. 推翻，撤销（判决等）
   to officially decide that a legal decision etc. is not correct, and to make it no longer valid
   1. to overturn a decision/conviction/verdict
      撤销决定 / 定罪 / 裁决
   2. His sentence was overturned by the appeal court.
      上诉法庭撤销了对他的判决。

1. V-ERG （使）翻转；（使）倾覆；（使）倒下
   If something overturns or if you overturn it, it turns upside down or on its side.
   1. The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall...
      卡车突然失控，翻倒撞上了一堵墙。
   2. Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of sherry...
      亚历克斯一下子暴跳起来，结果把他那杯雪利酒都打翻了。
   3. A dozen cartons of books had been overturned and strewn about the floor.
      十几个装书的纸箱都被倒空，乱扔了一地。
   4. ...a battered overturned boat.
      千疮百孔的倾覆的小船
2. VERB 推翻，撤销（判决）
   If someone in authority overturns a legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid.
   1. When the Russian parliament overturned his decision, he backed down...
      俄罗斯议会推翻了他的决定，他只好作罢。
   2. His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins.
      上诉法院法官沃特金斯撤销了对他作出的9个月徒刑的判决。
3. VERB 颠覆，破坏（政府或体系）
   To overturn a government or system means to remove it or destroy it.
   1. He accused his opponents of wanting to overturn the government.
      他指责反对派企图颠覆政府。
   2. ...a society where all the old values had been overturned.
      摒弃了所有旧价值观的社会

1. The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall
   卡车突然失控，翻倒撞上了一堵墙。
2. Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of sherry
   亚历克斯一下子暴跳起来，结果把他那杯雪利酒都打翻了。
3. A dozen cartons of books had been overturned and strewn about the floor.
   十几个装书的纸箱都被倒空，乱扔了一地。
4. When the Russian parliament overturned his decision, he backed down
   俄罗斯议会推翻了他的决定，他只好作罢。
5. His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins.
   上诉法院法官沃特金斯撤销了对他作出的9个月徒刑的判决。
6. He accused his opponents of wanting to overturn the government.
   他指责反对派企图颠覆政府。
7. Horrified commuters saw the lorry veer across the motorway and overturn.
   惊恐万分的通勤者们看见那辆卡车突然冲向高速公路另一侧，接着翻倒在地。
8. We saw the canoe overturn, throwing its passengers into the water.
   我们看到独木舟倾覆了，把上面的乘客掀入水中。
9. The21st century will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life.
   21世纪将会颠覆很多我们关于经济生活的基础设想。
10. The deal will overturn a three-decade ban on civil nuclear trade with India.
    这个协定将结束执行了30年的不得与印度进行民用核贸易的禁令。
11. Yet even the political overturn was not so revolutionary as one might suppose.
    然而即使政治上的颠覆也不如人们可能想象的那样具有革命性。
12. Value is only a re-selection for happiness, and does not overturn the happy principle itself.
    价值观只是对快乐的一种再选择，并没有推翻快乐原则本身。
13. The court decided, five to four, on Thursday to overturn its own ruling from nineteen ninety.
    高院周四以五票对四票的表决推翻了其1990年的裁定。
14. I overturn the ink bottle unconsciously, splashing the whole table.
    我不小心撞翻了墨水瓶，墨水泼了一桌子。
15. We have been opressed by the three mountains for years and we overturn it at last.
    我们过去被三座大山压迫了几十年，今天终于把它推倒了。
16. Forcing the bus to veer violently and overturn.
    导致了巴士的急速转向和翻车。
17. From another angle, we have the courage to overturn prejudices and their own patent wisdom.
    换个角度，我们要有推翻成见的勇气和别出心裁的智慧。
18. Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position.
    从一个竖直或者正常地位置推翻。
19. A Projection and Overturn of Myths and Biblical Scene in Desire Under the Elms
    《榆树下的欲望》中神话及圣经场景的投影和颠覆
20. Piercing the corporate veil is an overturn and exception to the principle of corporate separate legal personality.
    揭开公司面纱是对公司独立人格原则的颠覆和例外。
21. He is asking the Sedgwick County trial court to overturn the law.
    他要求Sedgwick县审判法庭推翻该法律。
22. The high court can overturn an earlier decision.
    最高法院可以推翻先前的判决。
23. The European Parliament voted to overturn a ban which had been brought in to tackle Mad Cow disease.
    欧洲议会表决推翻一项意在对付疯牛病的禁令。
24. The Supreme Court has been known to overturn its own past decisions, but not often.
    最高法院推翻自己过去的判决虽有先例，但并不常见。
25. Three studies in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine overturn that dogma.
    最新一期的新英格兰医学杂志中的三项研究推翻了以上的教条主义。
26. If you would like to overturn my standing orders at that time.
    如果你们想要推翻我所下达的命令。
27. The revolutionist planned to overturn this puppet regime.
    革命者计划推翻傀儡政府。
28. To overturn a watering can.
    打翻了一个喷壶。
29. The only way to overturn a ruling on a federal law is to approve a new law.
    同时，驳回依据联邦法律所做裁决的惟一方法就是通过一部新法律。

noun

1. an improbable and unexpected victory
   1. the biggest upset since David beat Goliath

   Synonym:    upset

2. the act of upsetting something
   1. he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed

   Synonym:    upsetturnover

verb

1. change radically
   1. E-mail revolutionized communication in academe

   Synonym:    revolutionizerevolutionise

2. rule against
   1. The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill

   Synonym:    overruleoverrideoverthrowreverse

3. cancel officially
   1. He revoked the ban on smoking
   2. lift an embargo
   3. vacate a death sentence

   Synonym:    revokeannulliftcountermandreverserepealrescindvacate

4. turn from an upright or normal position
   1. The big vase overturned
   2. The canoe tumped over

   Synonym:    turn overtip overtump over

5. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
   1. The cat knocked over the flower vase
   2. the clumsy customer turned over the vase
   3. he tumped over his beer

   Synonym:    tip overturn overupsetknock overbowl overtump over

6. cause the downfall of
   1. The Czar was overthrown
   2. subvert the ruling class

   Synonym:    overthrowsubvertbring down