bouleverse

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verb

To change drastically; to overturn or turn upside down.

OriginFrench bouleverser →
Scrabble 15
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Meanings

verbbouleverse (third-person singular simple present bouleverses, present participle bouleversing, simple past and past participle bouleversed)

present singular third person bouleverses · participle present bouleversing · participle past bouleversed · past bouleversed

  1. transitiveTo change drastically; to overturn or turn upside down.

    Had the comet which traversed them been of any respectable weight he would have made havoc among them and bouleversed their motions. But it was a case of locomotive and cow, and it was "very bad for the coo."

    1872, The Gentleman's Magazine (part 1, page 691)

Origin

  1. Frenchboule
  2. Frenchverser
  3. Frenchbouleverser
  4. Englishbouleverse

Borrowed from French bouleverser.

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APA

bouleverse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouleverse

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bouleverse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouleverse.

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