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Definition of Topple
1. Verb. Fall down, as if collapsing. "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it"
Generic synonyms: Come Down, Descend, Fall, Go Down
Specialized synonyms: Keel Over
Derivative terms: Tumble
2. Verb. Cause to topple or tumble by pushing.
Definition of Topple
1. v. i. To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
2. v. t. To throw down; to overturn.
Definition of Topple
1. Verb. to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something ¹
2. Verb. to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Topple
1. to fall forward [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Topple
Literary usage of Topple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Joseph Pennell's Pictures in the Land of Templesby Joseph Pennell by Joseph Pennell (1915)
"that straight lines do not look straight, and that if the lines of a building do
not look straight, the building looks as if it is going to topple over and ..."
2. The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror by Charles Eugene Banks, Opie Percival Read (1906)
"... Find Themselves Helpless in the Presence of Fate—Great Sky Scrapers topple to
Ruin, Burying Hundreds in the Debris—Immense Conflagration Completes " The ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"... topple down.' * In the recognition of these and similar lessons appears to
lie our best chance of attaining such truth as can be mastered here below. ..."
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