Upset

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause to turn or tip over; capsize.
  • v. To disturb the functioning, order, or course of: Protesters upset the meeting by chanting and shouting.
  • v. To distress or perturb mentally or emotionally: The bad news upset me.
  • v. To overthrow; overturn: upset a will. See Synonyms at overthrow.
  • v. To defeat unexpectedly (an opponent favored to win).
  • v. To make (a heated metal bolt, for example) shorter and thicker by hammering on the end.
  • verb-intransitive. To become overturned; capsize.
  • verb-intransitive. To become disturbed.
  • n. The act of upsetting or the condition of being upset.
  • n. A disturbance, disorder, or state of agitation.
  • n. A game or contest in which the favorite is defeated.
  • n. A tool used for upsetting; a swage.
  • n. An upset part or piece.
  • adj. Having been overturned; capsized.
  • adj. Exhibiting signs and symptoms of indigestion: an upset stomach.
  • adj. In a state of emotional or mental distress; distraught: upset parents.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • adj. Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
  • n. Disturbance or disruption.
  • n. An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.
  • n. An overturn.
  • n. An upset stomach.
  • n. An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
  • v. To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • v. To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
  • v. To tip or overturn (something).
  • v. To defeat unexpectedly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To set up; to put upright.
  • v.
  • v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
  • v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
  • v. To overturn, overthrow, or overset
  • v. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill.
  • v. To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner.
  • verb-intransitive. To become upset.
  • adj. Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
  • n. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See the extract.
  • To set or place up.
  • To overturn; overthrow; overset, as a boat or a carriage; hence, figuratively, to throw into confusion; interfere with; spoil: as, to upset one's plans.
  • To put out of the normal state; put in disorder; of persons, to discompose completely; make nervous or irritable; overcome.
  • To shorten and thicken by hammering, as a heated piece of metal set up endwise: said also of the shortening and resetting of the tire of a wheel.
  • To be overturned or upset.
  • n. The act of upsetting, overturning, or severely discomposing, or the state of being upset; an overturn: as, the carriage had an upset; the news gave me quite an upset.
  • Set up; fixed; determined.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. form metals with a swage
  • n. a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
  • v. disturb the balance or stability of
  • n. the act of disturbing the mind or body
  • n. a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
  • n. an improbable and unexpected victory
  • v. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
  • v. cause to lose one's composure
  • adj. used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
  • adj. mildly physically distressed
  • adj. having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
  • n. an unhappy and worried mental state
  • n. the act of upsetting something
  • v. move deeply
  • adj. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
  • v. defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
  • adj. thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
  • Equivalent
    unexpected    ill    sick    turned    troubled    disorganized    disorganised   
    Verb Form
    upsets    upsetting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    work    mold    mould    form    shape    forge    touch    disturb    disturbance    tool   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    upsetting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fixed    determined    overturn    jump    topsy-turvy    confused    disconcerted    disconcertedness    unnerved    unhappy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Annette    Antoinette    Bernadette    Bizet    Bret    Brett    Burnett    Calumet    Chalmette    Chet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    setback    downturn    estrangement    ailment