overturn

1. 1.

   the act of upsetting something

   “he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed”

   Synonymsupsetturnover

   Broaderinversion
2. 2.

   an improbable and unexpected victory

   “the biggest upset since David beat Goliath”

   Synonymsupset

   Broadersuccess

Other forms of overturn

plural

overturns·

past tense

overturned·

present participle

overturning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overturn

What does overturn mean?

overturn means "turn from an upright or normal position". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overturn?

overturn has 3 syllables: o-ver-turn. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌtɝn/.

What is another word for overturn?

Close synonyms include turn over, tip over, tump over, tip over, turn over. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overturn a common word?

overturn is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overturn?

7 words rhyme with overturn. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.