toppling

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Verb[edit]

toppling

  1. present participle and gerund of topple

Noun[edit]

toppling (plural topplings)

  1. The act by which something is toppled.
    • 2008 April 22, Jennifer Dunning, “Works Not New, but Right for the Time”, in New York Times[1]:
      And in “Central Park in the Dark” and her haunting response to “The Unanswered Question,” Sokolow evokes more small-town anomie in spare shifts of ranks, topplings and rises.