topple
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
fall down, as if collapsing
The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- fall derivation
Sense 2 verb
cause to topple or tumble by pushing
Types & categories
- push hypernym
Related & opposite
- fall derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fall |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | come down |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | keel over |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fall |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | push |