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 →

2) An overturned decision or result has been changed or cancelled by someone with more authority. tree →

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 →
• The boat overturned in the storm. tree →
• There were overturned chairs everywhere after the party. tree →
• The referee's decision was overturned after the replay. tree →
• The cat overturned the plant pot. tree →
• Stay with an overturned boat and hold on. tree →
• The court overturned the ruling. tree →
• We found an overturned bucket in the garden. tree →
• The sea was rough and the whitecaps overturned the boat. tree →

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».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «overturned» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.