Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To push or knock over.
- intransitive verb To bring about the downfall, destruction, or ending of. synonym: overthrow.
- intransitive verb To defeat, as in a contest.
- intransitive verb To totter and fall.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fall top or head foremost; fall forward as having too heavy a top; pitch or tumble down.
- To overhang; jut, as if threatening to fall.
- To throw headlong; tumble; overturn; upset.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
- transitive verb To throw down; to overturn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
push ,throw over ,overturn oroverthrow something - verb to
totter andfall , or tolean as if about to do so
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- verb fall down, as if collapsing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And while this is dark fantasy, my goal was to instill a sense of life and fun in it so it doesn't topple from the weight of its own myopic misery.
Petrol Queen…first draft finished! marshallpayne1 2010
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The potential to topple is there when the main focus is not the foundation but the behavior layer.
Web Teacher › Report from WDN 09: Educating the Next Generation of Web Professionals, III 2009
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I am struggling with balance … feel just like I do RIGHT before I topple from a yoga posture.
Monday Musing 2008
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Yes…what has transpired since the topple is a BAD situation.
Think Progress » McCain and Lieberman Express Support For Sending More Troops to Iraq 2006
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Professor Thernstrom has not retracted her comments to Politico about the conservative commissoners deliberately trying to "topple" the
Rubin still flat wrong about Black Panther nonsense Adam Serwer 2011
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Instead they train their fire on the apostasy of Republican Commissioner Abigail Thernstrom, who first identified the investigation as an effort to "topple" the Obama administration and offered a brief, one-page dissent the conservative commissioners dismiss as lacking "specifics."
What the right won't tell you about the Black Panther case Adam Serwer 2011
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Two wars twelve years apart it took to "topple" him, and in between, sanctions made him fabulously rich.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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I know HRC is not super popular among lefty bloggers but I don't think there's a movement to "topple" her -- at least by any large faction of the netroots.
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We do not wish them to "topple," but if somebody has got to fall we would rather it were not ourselves.
The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912
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Will Leonardo DiCaprio and 'Shutter Island' topple 'Avatar' from the top of the box office?
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