Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for O-VER-TURN'
O-VER-TURN', v.t.
- To overset; to turn or throw from a basis or foundation; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
- To subvert; to ruin; to destroy. Locke. Atterbury.
- To overpower; to conquer. Milton.
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