Synonyms of the word

overturn

• v. To turn over, capsize or upset (something).
• v. To overthrow or destroy something.
• v. (law) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind.
• v. To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

annul

• v. (transitive) To formally revoke the validity of.
• v. (transitive) To dissolve (a marital union) on the grounds that it is not valid.

cancel

• v. (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
• v. (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
• v. (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
• v. (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction,…
• v. (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
• v. (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
• v. (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
• v. (slang) To kill.
• n. A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
• n. (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
• n. (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

countermand

• v. To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
• v. To recall a person or unit with such an order.
• v. To prohibit; to forbid.
• v. To oppose; to revoke the command of.
• n. An order to the contrary of a previous one.

decree

• n. An edict or law.
• n. (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
• n. (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
• v. To command by a decree.

depose

• v. (literally transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
• v. (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
• v. (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
• v. (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
• v. (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
• v. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

inversion

• n. the action of inverting.
• n. being upside down, in an inverted state.
• n. being in a reverse sequence, in an inverted state.
• n. (music).
• n. (genetics) a segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to…
• n. (meteorology) An increase of air temperature with increase in altitude (the ground being colder than the…
• n. (grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place…
• n. (algebra) An operation on a group analogous to negation.
• n. (psychology, obsolete) an outdated term for homosexuality, particularly popular in early psychoanalysis.

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

override

• v. To ride across or beyond something.
• v. To ride a horse too hard.
• v. To counteract the normal operation of something.
• v. (object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the…
• n. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
• n. A royalty.
• n. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.

overrule

• v. (transitive) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
• v. (transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
• v. (transitive) To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
• v. (transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.

overthrow

• v. (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
• v. (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
• n. A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
• n. (sports) A throw that goes too far.
• n. (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence…

repeal

• v. (transitive) To cancel, invalidate, annul.
• v. To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.
• v. To suppress; to repel.
• n. An act or instance of repealing.

rescind

• v. (transitive) To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of…

reverse

• adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
• adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
• adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
• adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
• adj. (botany) Reversed.
• adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
• adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
• n. The opposite of something.
• n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
• n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
• n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
• n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
• n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
• n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
• n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
• v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
• v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
• v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
• v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
• v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
• v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
• v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
• v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
• v. To overthrow; to subvert.

revoke

• v. (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
• v. (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
• v. (obsolete) To call or bring back; to recall.
• v. (obsolete) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
• v. (obsolete) To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. (obsolete) To call back to mind; to recollect.
• n. The act of revoking in a game of cards.
• n. A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious…
• n. A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense…

revolutionise

• v. To change radically or significantly, as in a revolution.

revolutionize

• v. to radically or significantly change, as in a revolution.

rule

• n. A regulation, law, guideline.
• n. A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
• n. A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as…
• n. A regulating principle.
• n. The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
• n. A normal condition or state of affairs.
• n. (obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
• n. (law) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or…
• n. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
• n. (printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing…
• v. (transitive) To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To excel.
• v. (transitive) To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
• v. (intransitive) To decide judicially.
• v. (transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by…

subvert

• v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
• v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
• n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

success

• n. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
• n. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
• n. (business) financial profitability.
• n. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
• n. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

turnover

• n. The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
• n. The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers are replaced after leaving,…
• n. A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling…
• n. (sports) A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
• n. A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides…
• n. The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
• n. (dated) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
• adj. Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.

upending

• v. present participle of upend.
• n. An act of overthrowing or turning over.

upset

• adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to…
• n. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
• n. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored…
• n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
• n. An upset stomach.
• n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is…
• v. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• v. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
• v. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
• v. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
• v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
• v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
• v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

vacate

• v. To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction.
• v. To leave an office or position.
• v. To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
• v. To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural…