toppling
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]toppling
- present participle and gerund of topple
Noun
[edit]toppling (plural topplings)
- 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.
Adjective
[edit]toppling (comparative more toppling, superlative most toppling)
- That which topples.
- 2025 September 21, Kat Armas, “Is the United States a toppling empire?”, in National Catholic Reporter[2]:
- 2024 June 27, Erin K. Jensen, Jeffrey Moore, et al, “Combined ambient vibration and surface displacement measurements for improved progressive failure monitoring at a toppling rock slab in Utah, USA”, in Frontiers Magazine[3]:
- We analyzed data from continuous ambient vibration monitoring and concomitant crack aperture measurements at the Courthouse Mesa instability, a large toppling sandstone slab in Utah, USA.