overturned
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of overturn.
The appeals court overturned the earlier ruling within months.
The verdict was overturned after new evidence came to light.
Note
One spelling does double duty, and the verb behind it decides which constructions are open. Rulings and decisions are only ever overturned by someone, so they take the passive: the verdict was overturned. Boats, cars and even lakes can simply overturn on their own (the canoe overturned, the lake overturned in a gas eruption), and there the form stands alone with no auxiliary at all.
The canoe overturned in the rapids, throwing both paddlers into the river.
When the lake overturned, a cloud of gas rolled down into the valley.
overturned is a form of overturn
overturn, verb: To turn something over, capsize, or upset it so it falls onto its side or rests upside down. Full entry
- Forms
- overturnoverturns he/she/itoverturning -ing formoverturned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- overturn → overturned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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