Čo znamená overturn v angličtine a aká je definícia overturn?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť overturn výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

overturn Význam & definícia

0 to (cause to) turn over:
- The car skidded off the road, hit a tree and overturned.
- The intruder had overturned some of the furniture in the house.
1 to change a legal decision:
- The Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision.
- The Labour candidate unexpectedly overturned the long-standing Tory majority.
2 to turn over, or to cause something to turn over:
- [ I ] The truck overturned, spilling its cargo.
- [ T ] The court of appeals overturned her conviction and ordered a new trial.
3 to change a legal decision:
- overturn a decision/verdict/ruling The Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision.

The rioters overturned several cars and set them alight.
An articulated lorry has overturned on the south-bound carriageway, shedding its load.
A truck driver died last night when his vehicle overturned.
She overturned the car, but walked away from it without a scratch.
Vandals smashed windows and overturned cars in the downtown shopping district.
There were limits to the extent to which the post-1945 consensus could be overturned.
While this attitude was challenged and overturned by subsequent academic re-evaluation, steps towards mainstream recognition of the poverty of initial criticism were only tentative.
We hope, by overturning the conventional approach to rendering, to find a way of handling ruins.