topple over
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Verb
topple over (third-person singular simple present topples over, present participle toppling over, simple past and past participle toppled over)
- (idiomatic) To fall over (to fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position).
- 2010 October 17, Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, in The Guardian:
- Moreover, some innocently untattooed people in the yoga class – who would otherwise be totally ace at balancing – find the light of self-satisfaction that radiates off their classmates' tattoos is so blinding they topple over.
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Translations
fall over
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- overtopple