topple

1. (transitive) To push or throw over.Examples: "The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator."transitive

2. (figurative) To overthrow something.Examples: "to topple one's rival"; "Barla Von: Most people think I deal in finances, but my real currency is knowledge. I trade information and it has made me very wealthy. Barla Von: But the Shadow Broker is the true master. Every day, he buys and sells secrets that could topple governments, always giving them to the highest bidder."; "He now confronts the daunting endeavor of toppling a former president whose belligerence and loyal base of support have discouraged most leading Republicans — including, up to now, Mr. DeSantis — from making frontal attacks against him."figuratively

3. (intransitive) To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so.Examples: "The pile of pennies began to topple."; "[…] yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, ⁠And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire."intransitive