overturn
overturn 英 [ˌəʊvəˈtɜ:n] 美 [ˌoʊvərˈtɜrn]
v. 推翻；倾倒；倾覆
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- v. 推翻；倾倒；倾覆
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1. The car skidded and overturned.
汽车打滑翻倒了。
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2. He stood up quickly, overturning his chair.
他猛然站起来，弄翻了椅子。
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3. to overturn a decision, to overturn a conviction,
撤销决定╱定罪
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4. His sentence was overturned by the appeal court.
上诉法庭撤销了对他的判决。
- overturn (v.) early 13c., of a wheel, "to rotate, roll over," from over- + turn (v.). Attested from c. 1300 in general transitive sense "to throw over violently;" figurative meaning "to ruin, destroy" is from late 14c. Of judicial decisions, "to reverse," it is attested from 1826. Related: Overturned; overturning.
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