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topple English

Meaning topple meaning

What does topple mean?
Definitions in simple English

topple Verb

— If you topple something, you push it over or defeat it. Germany toppled Canada in the hockey match. — If something topples, it falls over or it looks like it might fall over.

topple

— verb (= tumble) fall down, as if collapsing The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it — verb (= tumble) cause to topple or tumble by pushing

Synonyms topple synonyms

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topple English » English

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Topics topple topics

What do people use topple to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Carry

Knock over

  • What words refer to knocking something over so that it falls?
    knock down topple
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Push

  • What words refer to pushing something so that it falls over?
    push over topple
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall

Conjugation topple conjugation

How do you conjugate topple?

topple · verb

Examples topple examples

How do I use topple in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The giraffe cannot swim because its centre of gravity is so high that it would topple over.
Those books look as if they're going to topple over any minute.
We'll topple this dictatorship.

Movie subtitles

That is the kind of woman that makes whole civilizations topple.
Well, tell me this, Mr. Meade. Do you think Backalis could get so drunk. he'd fall down on the pier, hurt himself and topple into the river? I doubt it.
He could quite easily topple this house off its foundation.
And they'll topple it the minute they find a flaw in it.
Now all that is needed is the push that will topple it completely.
With this document, I can even topple Yagyu.
We'll topple the Aizu clan from its pedestal!
You can topple walls.
So you topple walls?
You will find a copper bow and a lead arrow. Aim at the knight beneath the dome. Topple him into the sea and free the world of this misfortune.
If there are thousands of ampoules down there.. I'm gonna rig the Goliath so that I topple her off the reef, out of anybody's reach forever.
Dad couldn't topple me down!
Miss, the building's going to topple!
The building's going to topple!
Eumolpo, sit down before you topple.
Topple him somewhere into the creek.
If Chih-hao becomes a champion in the competition. we still can't topple the Shang Wu Martial Arts School.
Why seek to topple the Shang Wu Martial School?
And when I get back there, I'll topple on his teakettle every Britisher and every Protestant I meet.
Aim at the knight beneath the dome. Topple him into the sea and free the world of this misfortune.
If we use it correctly, we could easily topple the government.
If there are thousands of ampoules down there. I'm gonna rig the Goliath so that I topple her off the reef, out of anybody's reach forever.
The building's gonna topple!
You'll turn into repulsive old hags before you'll see me topple!
You'd topple the regime?
If we don't drive them out, they'll topple the ceiling on our heads.
I think the whole structure we built up for him would topple down again.
Well, tell me this, Mr. Meade. Do you think Backalis could get so drunk. he'd fall down on the pier, hurt himself and topple into the river?
I'm afraid I might topple over sometime when I have one of the children in my arms, or. I'm standing near the stove or something.
We must topple.
Able to topple governments with a single broadcast.
Don't relax too much, or you'll topple over onto the dirt!
Although she gave me quite a fright for a moment there. With so much weight distributed in front, I'd have sworn she'd topple back to the floor. before she ever got to her knees.
Our spies believe Apophis agreed to the meeting because he would use this alliance to topple the System Lords, after which he will deal with Heru-ur.
Jeanne Saint-Remy de Valois the woman who helped topple a monarchy, never returned to France.
I passed on Ito's plot to kill Kondo, and even Ryoma Sakamoto, who was against using force to topple the Shogun.
It's likely to strengthen resolve and topple a moderate regime.
Things that could topple our nation's credibility.

News and current affairs

Trade sanctions foster smuggling and smugglers are usually in cahoots with authorities, so that sanctions strengthen the governments they are supposed to topple.
Some people argue that the US could enhance security in northeast Asia by compromising with the North Koreans - specifically, by promising not to attack or attempt to topple the Kim regime.
But Fatah has not accepted defeat, while Hamas is convinced that elements within Fatah agree with Israeli and American plans to topple the Hamas government.
So far, there is no evidence that the protesters in Hong Kong's Central district have any ambition to undermine, let alone topple, the government in Beijing.
It has gone on to topple dozens of governments, in all regions of the world, with no accountability there or at home.
And US-led international sanctions, imposed from the 1990s onward, have aimed to impoverish, destabilize, and ultimately topple the Islamist regime.
During the past decade, the US and its allies have tried to weaken, and then, starting in 2011, to topple President Bashar al-Assad's regime, mainly in a proxy war to undermine Iranian influence in Syria.
There is not just one wall to topple, but many.
Since 2011, the CIA and US allies have poured in weapons, finance, and training in an attempt to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
The security establishment is driven by US policymakers' long-standing reliance on military force and covert operations to topple regimes deemed to be harmful to American interests.
When al-Qaeda struck the US on September 11, 2001, the attack was used as a pretext by the security establishment to launch its long-desired war to topple Saddam.
The hope was that isolation and sanctions would topple Kim Jong Il's dictatorship.
The Bush Administration has been pursuing policies likely to topple Aristide since 2001.
The idea was that isolation and sanctions would topple Kim Jong-il's dictatorship.
Likewise, it is now launching a war in Iraq and Syria against the offspring of Bush's forced regime change in Baghdad and Obama's ill-conceived plan to topple Assad.
In moving to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, the Bush administration stakes its case on two critical arguments.
In late April 2009, security forces arrested 40 opposition figures, accusing them of trying to topple the government.
We need to be clear that Moscow has a right to security, but that it does not have the right to interfere in the affairs of its neighbors, to topple their governments, or to deny them their own foreign-policy aspirations.
The country is at a stalemate: the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and Assad's forces are unable to quash the resistance.
So the West should see the job through in Afghanistan - do it better but do it. Sometimes the dominoes do topple over, one by one.
But with the stick should come a carrot: with good intelligence, some Iraqi generals and colonels should be approached with offers of amnesty and support should they decide to try to topple Saddam.
True, they might not be able to topple the new regime, but they will be able to de-stabilize Iraq over the long term, in the hope of forcing a negotiated settlement of their grievances.
As a former finance minister, deputy prime minister, and the product of a grass-roots civil-society movement, Prime Minister Kan has his work cut out for him, particularly as it is rumored that Ozawa intends to topple him in the autumn.
Mostly comprising electoral losers and remnants of Mubarak's regime, some aim to topple Morsi, not just get him to backtrack on his decree.

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