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▸ verb: (transitive) To overthrow or destroy.
▸ verb: (law, transitive) To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind.
▸ verb: (transitive) To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of a body of water) To undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
▸ noun: A turning over or upside-down; inversion.
▸ noun: The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin.
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overthrow,
reverse,
overrule,
lift,
bring down,
revoke,
repeal,
override,
rescind,
countermand,
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political,
general,
revolutionary,
social,
great,
violent,
sudden,
such,
radical,
seasonal
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