overturns
USoh-ver-TURNZ/ˌoʊvɚˈtɝnz/UKoh-vuh-TURNZ/ˌəʊvəˈtɜːnz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of overturn.
A sudden gust overturns the small sailboat just past the breakwater.
The appeals court routinely overturns convictions built on unreliable testimony.
Note
The verb works with or without an object. A gust overturns a boat, but a boat can also simply overturn by itself, and a lake does the same when dissolved gas suddenly erupts from its depths. With rulings it always takes an object: a court overturns a verdict. The same spelling also serves as the plural of the noun overturn, meaning a turning upside down.
overturns 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 → overturns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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