overturning

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of overturn

noun

  1. The act by which something is overturned.
    But after that there were three general overturnings before Christ came, in the succession of the three great monarchies of the world, after the Babylonish empire. a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, History of Redemption

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