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# overturned

«overturned» in Mova's school dictionary: **turned upside down or onto its side: an overturned boat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (overturned); verb past form (overturn, overturns, overturned, overturning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Overturned means turned upside down or onto its side: an overturned boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#m1)

2) An overturned decision or result has been changed or cancelled by someone with more authority. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In news and safety it describes crashes: an overturned car or lorry on the road. In stories it describes a messy scene (overturned chairs). In law and sport a decision overturned by a court or video replay is changed.

### examples

- An overturned truck blocked the motorway. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x1)
- The boat overturned in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x2)
- There were overturned chairs everywhere after the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x3)
- The referee's decision was overturned after the replay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x4)
- The cat overturned the plant pot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x5)
- Stay with an overturned boat and hold on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x6)
- The court overturned the ruling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x7)
- We found an overturned bucket in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x8)
- The sea was rough and the whitecaps overturned the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: overturn, overturned. Safety: if a canoe overturns, stay calm and hold on to the boat. Synonym for things: capsized (boats), tipped over. For decisions: reversed.

### In the corpora

- [Jesus overturned the traders' tables in the Temple, saying, «My house shall be a house of prayer».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/18-the-last-supper-and-the-crucifixion/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overturned» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overturned/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.