Usually means: Reverse the decision or ruling.
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  1. overturn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overturn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overturn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overturn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overturn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overturn, overturn: Wordnik
  7. overturn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overturn: Wiktionary
  9. overturn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overturn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overturn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overturn: Dictionary.com
  13. overturn (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. overturn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Overturn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Overturn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. overturn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. overturn: Rhymezone
  19. overturn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. overturn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. overturn: Free Dictionary
  22. overturn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. overturn: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. overturn: Legal dictionary
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  1. overturn: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To turn over, capsize or upset.
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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