topple

IPA: tˈɑpʌɫ

verb

  • (transitive) To push or throw over.
  • To overturn.
  • (figurative) To overthrow something.
  • (intransitive) To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so.
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Examples of "topple" in Sentences

  • Yes…what has transpired since the topple is a BAD situation.
  • Will Leonardo DiCaprio and 'Shutter Island' topple 'Avatar' from the top of the box office?
  • I am struggling with balance … feel just like I do RIGHT before I topple from a yoga posture.
  • The potential to topple is there when the main focus is not the foundation but the behavior layer.
  • We do not wish them to "topple," but if somebody has got to fall we would rather it were not ourselves.
  • Two wars twelve years apart it took to "topple" him, and in between, sanctions made him fabulously rich.
  • Professor Thernstrom has not retracted her comments to Politico about the conservative commissoners deliberately trying to "topple" the
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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."

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