Topple

Definition: Topple

Topple

Verb

1. Fall down, as if collapsing.

2. Cause to topple or tumble by pushing.

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Date "topple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references)

Aerospace

Transportation

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Synonym: Topple

Descent

Tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper.

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Failure

Come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out ; fall to the ground, fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down; (descent); go to wrack and ruin; (destruction).

Inequality

Verb: be unequal; Adjective: countervail; have the advantage, give the advantage; turn the scale; kick the beam; topple,topple over; overmatch; not come up to.

Inversion

Verb: be inverted; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize, turn turtle.

Crosswords: Topple

Graceful swans of never topple to the earth (Thirty-Three; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

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Books

• Before We Topple (reference)

• Kennedy and Diefenbaker: The Feud That Helped Topple a Government (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Key Island, a barrier island, was infested with Australian pine trees, an invasive non-native plant that resul ted in significant loss of biodiversity of native plant communities. Salt-toler ant, they have shallow root systems that cause them to topple easily in high win ds, creating obstacles for Atlantic loggerhead turtles trying to nest on beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Beach erosion causing palm trees to topple. Credit: Small World.

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Civil Liberties

Malaysia

The Youth Chief of the National Justice Party (Keadilan), Ezam Noor, was charged with sedition in March for his alleged call for street demonstrations to topple the Government. (references)

Economic History

Democratic Republic of Congo

Although the Kinshasa mutiny was put down, the mutiny in the Kivus continued and mushroomed into a drive to topple the government. (references)

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Expressions using "topple": topple down ♦ topple over. Additional references.

Beginning with "topple": topple-proof.

Albanian

përmbysem (capsize, fall away, founder, keel over, turn over), bie kokëposhtë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, convert, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upset, upturn, whimsical), ‏تداعى للسقوط (nod), ‏سقط (bring down, cave, come off, dip, dive, down, drop, drop out, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, spill, sprawl, squirt, trip, tumble), ‏إنقلب (be inverted, capsize, change over, overturn, recoil, swing, tip over, toss, turn over, turn turtle, upset), ‏أطاح (boot, bowl over, overthrow, sink, tumble down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срутвам се (break in, calve, collapse, crash, fall down, fall in, tumble down), рухвам (collapse, crumble, fall, go to pieces, go to ruin, tumble down, wreck), олюлявам (reel, rock, stumble along, sway, teeter), залитам (falter, lurch, reel, stagger, stumble along), прекатурвам се (pitch over, turn over), падам (attach, come down, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

Chinese 

�'塌 (collapse). (various references)

Czech

svalit se (collapse, drop to the ground, tumble), spadnout (collapse, crash, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall over, go down), skácet se (tumble), překotit (fall over, keel over, tip, tumble, upset), kymácet se (totter). (various references)

Danish

nutation (nutation). (various references)

Dutch

tuimelen (tumbling). (various references)

Farsi 

واژگون کردن (Overturn, Reverse, Upset), ازسرافتادن , برگشتن (Backslide, Comeback, Rebound, Recrudesce, Retroflex, Return, Revert, Sheer, Untread). (various references)

Finnish

kaatuminen (crash). (various references)

French

vaciller (totter), se renverser, renverser (toss), nutation, faire tomber, faire basculer, basculer (toggle). (various references)

German

Kippen (cant, overturn, plummet, tilt, tilt over, tip, tip over, tip up, tipping, to cant, to topple, toss back, toss off), stürzen (bring down, dash, depose, fall, fling, hurl, overthrow, overthrown, overturn, pitch, plunge, precipitate, rush, slump, stream, to overturn, to rush, to topple, turn out, turn upside down, upset). (various references)

Greek 

ανατρέπω (buck, capsize, frustrate, invert, keel over, nullify, overbalance, overrule, overthrow, overturn, subvert, tip over, tip over 2, tumble, upset, upturn). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקרוס (buckle, collapse, kneel, writhe), ל�"תמוטט (break down, collapse, come down, founder, go to pieces). (various references)

Hungarian

ledönt (pull down, -threw, -thrown, to cut down, to demolish, to fell, to knock over, to overthrow, to tip down, to topple), feldönt (overbalance, overturn, to blow over, to bowl over, to bowl over skittles, to knock over, to push over, to tilt, to topple, to tumble down, to tumble over, tumble down). (various references)

Indonesian

tumbang, rebah, menggulingkan (overthrow), menggugurkan (abort). (various references)

Italian

traballare (shaky, stagger, totter), star a cadere, rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, slop, spill, spill out, tip, tumble, turn, turn inside out, turn over, upset), far cadere (drop, push over, shower, spill), crollare (buckle, collapse, crack, crash, crumble, decay, fall down, flop down, keel over, slump), caduta in avanti, cadere (crumble, devolve, drop, fall, land, pitch, plump, plunge, sink, sink down, slump, tumble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

覆る (to be overturned, to capsize, to topple over). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くつがえる (to be overturned, to capsize, to topple over), ひっくりかえる (to be overturned, to be reversed, to be upset, to topple over), ぼうたおし (game in which the object is to topple the opposing team's pole), どうとおれる (to fall down all of a heap, to topple over). (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, hew, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, spill, strike, striking, throw, tumble, weigh down), lhieggal (beat down, beat down price, bowl over, cast down, chop down, dismount, fall, fell, fetch down, get down, knock over, lay low, level, lower, pull down, pull over, raze, run down, tumble). (various references)

Pig Latin

oppletay

Portuguese

tombar (droop, fall over, flag, keel, lapse, overset, sink, tip, tumble), virar (bend, capsize, overset, slew, slue round, spill, spin, swing, throw, tilt, tip, tip-over, turn, turn around, turn round, upset), ruir (collapse, fall in), queda (cloud-burst, come-down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fallback, falling, letdown, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, spill, tumble, tumbling, upset), desabar (collapse), cair (collapse, drop, fall, flump, founder, go down, hang, keel over, lapse, pelt, plump, prey, prostrate, sink, sleet). (various references)

Romanian

rostogoli (bowl, roll, somersault, tumble), rãsturna (capsize, coup, invert, lay low, overthrow, overturn, reverse, rummage, scatter, snooker, spill, subvert, throw down, tilt, tumble, turn, upset). (various references)

Russian 

грозить падением, валиться (fall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svaliti (dump, knock down, shift), srušiti (crash, knock down, overthrow, subvert, tumble), oboriti (bowl over, bring down, chop, fell, kill, knock down, lay low, override, overthrow, overturn, roll over, send down, subvert, throw down, trample down, upend, vail). (various references)

Spanish

tumbar (drop, knockdown, overthrow, tumble), tambalearse por (lurch), volcar dentro (blow over, dump, keel over, upturn), venirse abajo (come down, fall down, sink, tumble down), perder el equilibrio (overbalance), hacer caer (knock off, push down, push over, settle, spill, tip up, trap, trip, trip up, tumble, tumble over), derrocar (bring down, lay low, overthrow, overturn, pull down, tumble), derribar (batter down, blow down, break down, bring down, demolish, fell, floor, knock down, knock over, lay, lay out, level, overthrow, pull down, take down, throw, upset), caerse (come down, come off, drop, fall, fall down, fall over, go down, like, pitch, shank off, tumble, tumble out), basculamiento (rocking). (various references)

Swedish

stjälpa (cant, knock over, overturn, torpedo, turn over, upset), störta (burst, dash, hurtle, overthrow, precipitate, throw, tumble). (various references)

Turkish

tepetaklak düşmek (come a purler, fall head over heels, go downhill, keel over, take a purler, topple down, topple over), sendelemek (blunder, careen, dodder, falter, halt, lurch, pitch, reel, stagger, stumble, swing, teeter, totter, waver, wobble), devrilmek (fall, fall from, fall over, overset, overturn, tilt over, tip, tip over, topple down, topple over, tumble, tumble down, turn over, turn turtle, upset), devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple over, upset), düşecek gibi olmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

валити (fell, precipitate), загрозливо нависати. (various references)

cadam, cadamus, cadant, cadas, cadat, cadatis, cadebant, cadebat, cadens, cadensque, cadent, cadentes, cadentesque, cadentibusque, cadere, caderem, caderent, caderet, cades, cadet, cadetis, cadit, cadite, cado, cadunt, ceciderant, ceciderat, ceciderint, ceciderit, cecideritque, ceciderunt, cecideruntque, cecidi, cecidimus, cecidisse, cecidissent, cecidisset, cecidisti, cecidit, ceciditque, corruat, corruatis, corruens, corruent, corruentem, corruentes, corruentibus, corruere, corruerint, corruerunt, corrues, corruet, corruetis, corrui, corruissent, corruisti, corruit, corruitque, corruunt, occumbo, supercecidit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "topple": toppled, topples. (additional references)

Words ending with "topple": stopple. (additional references)

Words containing "topple": stoppled, stopples. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Topple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boepple, jopplety, Koppel, Mopple, opple, topal, topel, Topfler, topie, topl, Toplab, tople, toplit, toppe, touple, tuple, tupple, turple. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: lept, lope, pelt, pepo, plop, plot, poet, pole, pope, tole, tope.

-3 letters: let, lop, lot, ole, ope, opt, pep, pet, pol, pop, pot, tel, toe, top.

-4 letters: el, et, lo, oe, op, pe, to.

+1 letter: stopple, toppled, topples.

+2 letters: estoppel, loppiest, oppilate, polytype, populate, stoppled, stopples.

+3 letters: estoppels, floppiest, haplotype, oppilated, oppilates, papillote, pitchpole, polytypes, popliteal, populated, populates, proleptic, sloppiest, stoppable.

+4 letters: apoplectic, appositely, depopulate, epileptoid, haplotypes, leptospire, nympholept, oppositely, papillotes, pentaploid, petroglyph, phlogopite, pitchpoled, pitchpoles, pleiotropy, propellant, propellent, psilophyte, repopulate, suppletion, suppletory.

+5 letters: apophyllite, apostleship, appellation, blacktopped, copperplate, depopulated, depopulates, lepidoptera, leptospiral, leptospires, lipoprotein, nympholepts, opportunely, outpopulate, pentaploids, pentaploidy, petroglyphs, phlogopites, plecopteran, pleiotropic, plenipotent, pluripotent, polypeptide, postponable, prepotently, propellants, propellents, prophetical, protophloem, protoplanet, psilophytes, purportedly, repopulated, repopulates, spheroplast, superpolite, suppletions, supportable, townspeople, unstoppable.