tumps (over)

verb

present tense third-person singular of tump (over), chiefly Southern
as in oversets

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  1. topples
  2. inverts
  3. upends
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  • In 2003 the United States topples Hussein and delivers him to his executioners.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • Byron Nelson topples Guyer, evens series Byron Nelson defeated Denton Guyer 2-1 to even the two squads’ Class 6A Division II regional final series at Byron Nelson High School.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
Definition of topples
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  • More specifically, the argument that tracking demographic data produces discrimination inverts the established purpose of the EEO-1.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Fear-buying follows a distinct economic logic that inverts the conventional relationship between anxiety and spending.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 June 2026
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  • Lucien Laviscount enters the scene and steams it up as Hot Guy who fandangoes with Laila and then upends the apple cart later on.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
  • The cargo project is a trial—like many other humanoid experiments—but the fact that Chinese machines have penetrated so far into Japan’s ecosystem upends a long history.
    — Tim Hornyak, IEEE Spectrum, 4 July 2026
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