OVERTURNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overturned mean? 

• OVERTURNED (adjective)
  The adjective OVERTURNED has 1 sense:

1. having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom

  Familiarity information: OVERTURNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERTURNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom

Synonyms:

overturned; upset; upturned

Context example:

sat on an upturned bucket

Similar:

turned (moved around an axis or center)

 Context examples 

This has now been overturned by the new study, at least in the specific circumstances of the Amazon.

(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)

As to the Admiralty—it is buzzing like an overturned bee-hive.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the north-east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All the boy knew was that he had in some unaccountable way been overturned into the snow, and that his club-hand had been ripped wide open by White Fang's teeth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The overturned chair, hurled onward in the mad whirl, lay near him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

If I loved a man, as she loves the Admiral, I would always be with him, nothing should ever separate us, and I would rather be overturned by him, than driven safely by anybody else.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Analysis of the data showed that the surface temperature of Loki Patera steadily increased from one end to the other, suggesting that lava had overturned in two waves that swept from east to west at a rate of 3,300 feet (1 km) per day.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Bill seemed to have forgotten his forebodings of the previous night, and even waxed facetious with the dogs when, at midday, they overturned the sled on a bad piece of trail.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

On several occasions the sled was overturned, and they were compelled to reload it with its sombre freight.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In the scramble one of the dogs had been overturned on the edge of the fire, and it had yelped with pain and fright as the smell of its singed coat possessed the air.

(White Fang, by Jack London)