TOPPLED Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

toppled

verb

past tense of topple

as in fell

to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily the tower of blocks toppled even though I bumped into it ever so slightly

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Recent Examples of toppled The series follows the Canadian team’s historic run to the World Cup final, where they were ultimately toppled by host country England, going down 33-13 in front of a sellout crowd of 82,000 at Twickenham Stadium in South West London. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026 The team with the third-lowest payroll in Major League Baseball had toppled the team with the third-highest payroll, on that night and in the division. — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 Previous budget deadlocks have toppled French governments in recent years. — Chloe Taylor,jenni Reid, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026 The tent is still at capacity, only one cake has toppled over, and the viewing public is still sizing up the show’s newest judge, Nigella Lawson. — Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026 Tidal surges swamped low-lying neighborhoods in New Jersey while wind gusts toppled trees on New York’s Long Island, damaging homes and bringing down utility poles. — Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026 In June, an 85-year old retired statistician who loved taking long walks in nature was killed in a freak accident when a sudden summer storm toppled a tree that crushed him in a Queens park. — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 27 Sep. 2026 The winds toppled trees in New York City, with some landing on top of parked cars. — Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026 His daughter's husband, who drank heavily, toppled off his boat and drowned. — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 20 Sep. 2026

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Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of fell

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Drew Rasmussen squandered a two-run lead on the mound, Tampa Bay's bullpen let the game get away and the Rays stumbled to a 7-3 loss against the Cleveland Guardians in their American League Championship Series opener Monday night.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Kore-eda stumbled on the manga in a bookshop rather than through its serial run.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of stumbled

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Up until tonight, Raman has done a good job of communicating a message of hope and change, while Bass, as the incumbent, has repeatedly tripped on her record over the biblically bad four years of her first term.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
The truest sign that Joseph had tripped the Rams up with Hufanga’s blitz came by looking at Rams right guard Kevin Dotson.

— Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of tripped

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Amanda Peet did all of that too, starting in her late 30s because of dense breast tissue and prior benign lumps, and her stage 1 invasive lobular carcinoma still slipped past her first scan.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
These were aspirationally scheduled for no earlier than mid and late October, respectively, but have now apparently slipped to mid-to-late November (though there has been no public confirmation of any firm target date).

— Andrew Jones, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of slipped

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Webull — Shares tumbled 20% after CNBC reported that a congressional panel found that Webull's ties to the Chinese government create a national security risk .

— Fred Imbert, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
The father lifted the child to check out the hotel's waterpark visible from a window when the boy somehow slipped and tumbled 12 meters (about 40 feet), falling to his death.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

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