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    [Verb]  | "over*turn" | \ ˌō-vər-ˈtərn \


    1: to cause to turn over : upset

    2: invalidate, destroy

    3: reverse

    Origin: 13th century ;

    [Noun]  | "over*turn" | \ ˈō-vər-ˌtərn \


    1: the act of overturning : the state of being overturned

    2: the sinking of surface water and rise of bottom water in a lake or sea that results from changes in temperature that commonly occur in spring and fall

    Origin: circa 1592 ;

    [Idiom]  | "overturn the decision" 


    1: to disagree with a decision made earlier by a lower court

    [Verb]  | "overturn" 


    1: to turn on one's side or upside down;


      * e.g., " ... afraid that my kayak would overturn "




    [Noun]  | "overturn" 


    1: as in veto, overruling;



     [ "overturned tortoise" ]

    1: Having sex with an epileptic pitching a fit.

      * e.g.,  ... I did the overturned tortoise last night, arms and legs everywhere. 

     [ "Overturned tortoise" ]

    1: Norfolk slang for a girl who is begging for sex, because she just can't get any action otherwise.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: You know that Dutch girl who moved to Norfolk? She's such an overturned tortoise! 

     [ "overturning the election" ]

    1: An extremely embarrassing period of American history in which a humanoid cheese puff with a stupid wig essentially threw a massive temper tantrum and tried to destroy the United States just because he didn't win an election.

      * e.g.,  ... The president, living in a delusional state of paranoid denial, ordered his supporters to storm the capitol building with the intent of severely harming, if not killing, basically every senator and representative who didn't support him in a last ditch attempt at overturning the election. 

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