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third-person singular simple present topples, present participle toppling, simple past and past participle toppled
(transitive) To push or throw over. examples
To overturn. examples
(figurative) To overthrow something. quotations examples
Barla Von: Most people think I deal in finances, but my real currency is knowledge. I trade information and it has made me very wealthy.Barla Von: But the Shadow Broker is the true master. Every day, he buys and sells secrets that could topple governments, always giving them to the highest bidder.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Citadel
He now confronts the daunting endeavor of toppling a former president whose belligerence and loyal base of support have discouraged most leading Republicans — including, up to now, Mr. DeSantis — from making frontal attacks against him.
2023 May 24, Nicholas Nehamas, “Ron DeSantis Joins 2024 Race, Hoping to Topple Trump”, in The New York Times
(intransitive) To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so. quotations examples
[…] yonder cloudThat rises upward always higher,And onward drags a labouring breast,And topples round the dreary west,A looming bastion fringed with fire.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XV, page 24