Topple vs Teeter - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between topple and teeter

is that topple is to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something while teeter is to tilt back and forth on an edge.

(toppl)

to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something

* The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator

to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so

* The pile of pennies began to topple

(en verb)

To tilt back and forth on an edge.

* teeterer * teeter-totter * teeterboard