Associations to the word «Topple»

Wiktionary

TOPPLE, verb. To push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something
TOPPLE, verb. To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
TOPPLE OVER, verb. (idiomatic) To fall over.

Dictionary definition

TOPPLE, verb. Fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it".
TOPPLE, verb. Cause to topple or tumble by pushing.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope