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Overturned

Overturn \O`ver*turn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overturned; p. pr. & vb. n. Overturning.]

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

  2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.

  3. To overpower; to conquer.
    --Milton.

    Syn: To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish.

Wiktionary
overturned

vb. (en-past of: overturn)

WordNet
overturned

adj. having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket" [syn: upset, upturned]

Usage examples of "overturned".

Five hundred episcopal churches were overturned by the hostile fury of the Donatists, the Vandals, and the Moors.

But the warlike Germans, who first resisted, then invaded, and at length overturned the Western monarchy of Rome, will occupy a much more important place in this history, and possess a stronger, and, if we may use the expression, a more domestic, claim to our attention and regard.

He hadn't dared drive it over fifteen miles an hour, and even at fifteen he would have nightmare visions of being thrown over the handlebars and fracturing his skull or going around a blind corner and slamming into an overturned truck and going up in a fireball.

He saw an overturned grand piano lying in the street like a large dead wooden horse.

In a famous tournament, he entered the lists on a fiery courser, and overturned in his first career two of the stoutest of the Italian knights.

Romanus was at length overturned: after a severe struggle, the Turks were repulsed from the breach, and interrupted by darkness.

Pieces of this stuff were also catching fire from the overturned stove.

It didn't, and he limped around the back of the overturned Scout to see what he could do about Pete.

On the far side of the overturned vehicle they were at least partly sheltered from the wind, and that was good.

He could now see the overturned Scout, its wheels and undercarriage covered with fresh snow.

He did not look back at the overturned Scout, did not see that he had written DUDDITS in the snow, over and over again, as he sat thinking of that day back in 1978.

Then he backed out of the Scout and sat with his shoulders against the overturned rear end, watching the fresh snow sift down and gobbling bread and peanut butter as fast as he could, using his index finger as a knife and licking it clean between spreads.

He thought of Pete, sitting in the snow beside the overturned Scout, drinking beer and writing DUDDITS over and over again in the snow.

But he had written speeches for those who did speak, and on several occasions those speeches had ended in riots, overturned cars, student strike votes, and violent demonstrations.

A trailer truck had overturned and half a dozen cars had crashed behind it.