Definitions for topple

topple top·ple

Spelling: [top-uh l]
IPA: /ˈtɒp əl/

Topple is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in topple (eloppt).

Definitions for topple

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause to topple.
  2. to overthrow, as from a position of authority:

verb (used without object)

  1. to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top; pitch; tumble down.
  2. to lean over or jut, as if threatening to fall.

Origin of topple

1535-45; earlier top to tilt, topple (see tope1) + -le

Examples for topple

He lost his balance, threw up his hands and began to topple.

To have got thus far, and then, by his own action, topple himself down!

He could not bring himself to say that he would have opposed the invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein.

Others, like the Tehrike e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) vowed to topple the Pakistani state itself.

President Obama has weighed the options and concluded America does more harm than good when it sets out to topple regimes.

I push down on the pedal with my right leg and instead of propelling myself forward, I topple over sideways.

The feather-dustery that had been a monument was about to topple into the weeds.

Obama has latched on to the failure of the embargo to topple the Castros as justification to shuffle the deck.

It will topple down; it will come to ruin; it will wreck everything.

It had only to topple forward in order to plunge down the cañon wall.

Word Value for topple
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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