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What does overturn mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word overturn? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To turn over, capsize or upset (something)
  2. To overthrow or destroy something
  3. (law) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind
  4. To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.
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Regulars in a Westbury pub are backing a landlord's bid to overturn the decision to revoke his late licence by contributing towards legal fees.
What is sought now to be done is to ask the court to overturn a conviction because he made a decision not to call evidence.
So it is very hard to see how the teleological argument, any more than the cosmological, can overturn the argument from evil.
He's been attempting to overturn the conviction because the police tracked his burner phone to a Texas rest stop.
However, eddying mixing motion can overturn this density profile, momentarily lifting heavy water above light water.
Anti-abortion activists launched a petition campaign on January 22 in a bid to overturn the veto.

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