Crossword clues for toppling
toppling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Topple \Top"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toppled; p. pr. & vb. n. Toppling.] [From Top summit.] To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
Though castles topple on their warders' heads.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is toppled. vb. (present participle of topple English)
WordNet
adj. falling over as if from top-heaviness or lack of support; "a toppling pile of books"; "toppling empires"
Usage examples of "toppling".
Another surge of force moaned through the room, awakening many small radiances in its wake, and in their fading flashes Craer saw the sideboard toppling, and Hawkril leaping away.
He glanced at two stone heads, crashing through the trees, and then back at the sorceress, clearly wondering if slaying the Lady of Jewels would bring both statues toppling into ruin.
Men shrouded in flames could be seen staggering vainly about amid collapsing floors and toppling walls, seeking a way out that they would never find in time.
He had a dagger out and was lumbering around the end of the wall even before Embra could swallow at the sight of a ragged torso toppling out of sight.
Then they cancelled out the orbital velocity and let the corpses go toppling toward Arcturus, toward a burning sun-grave where their light would shine forever.
Meric kicked the body over, toppling it across the spread of tossed bones.
Another was incinerated where he stood on the deck, his seared bones standing for a moment, then toppling down.
Sheltering behind the bulk of his mount, he nocked a shaft, drew the gut back, and sent one of the riders toppling with an arrow in the eye.
She saw a cloud of dust toppling down and realized that it was Kellhus hastening his descent by making leap after sliding leap.
Each was poised on the rail long enough for two men to smash it with axes before toppling it over the side.
Reese himself jumped in his seat, almost toppling from his perch before recovering his balance.
Maurik some time since its desertion, toppling ornamental trees and heaping seaweed-tangled dunes of sand against building walls.
Rotten tree trunks leaned into the gap as the firmament that supported them fell away, slowly toppling into nothingness.
Lultus was toppling, blood fountaining from his throat, and the little man was bounding up the stair.
By then, one solid Anharu fist had slammed home on an Adelnan gorget, crumpling it and leaving the man behind it wheezing and strangling for air, toppling over backwards.