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Upset   /əpsˈɛt/  /ˈəpsˌɛt/   Listen
Upset

adjective
1.
Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.  Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried.  "Spent many disquieted moments" , "Distressed about her son's leaving home" , "Lapsed into disturbed sleep" , "Worried parents" , "A worried frown" , "One last worried check of the sleeping children"
2.
Thrown into a state of disarray or confusion.  Synonyms: broken, confused, disordered.  "A confused mass of papers on the desk" , "The small disordered room" , "With everything so upset"
3.
Used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win.
4.
Mildly physically distressed.
5.
Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom.  Synonyms: overturned, upturned.  "The upset pitcher of milk" , "Sat on an upturned bucket"
verb
(past & past part. upset; pres. part. upsetting)
1.
Disturb the balance or stability of.
2.
Cause to lose one's composure.  Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune.
3.
Move deeply.  Synonyms: disturb, trouble.  "A troubling thought"
4.
Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position.  Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, overturn, tip over, tump over, turn over.  "The clumsy customer turned over the vase" , "He tumped over his beer"
5.
Form metals with a swage.  Synonym: swage.
6.
Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly.
noun
1.
An unhappy and worried mental state.  Synonyms: disturbance, perturbation.  "She didn't realize the upset she caused me"
2.
The act of disturbing the mind or body.  Synonyms: derangement, overthrow.  "She was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
3.
A physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning.  Synonym: disorder.  "Everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
4.
A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging.  Synonym: swage.
5.
The act of upsetting something.  Synonyms: overturn, turnover.
6.
An improbable and unexpected victory.  Synonym: overturn.



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"Upset" Quotes from Famous Books



... privilege of changing her mind, and Lady Hermione has returned to her husband. In fact, I am given to understand that she and Mr. Curtis are arranging a new marriage, not because the earlier ceremony is illegal, or can be upset, but in deference to certain natural scruples which such a charming young lady would be bound to entertain. . . . There can be no manner of doubt as to the correctness of what I am saying," and the detective's tone grew emphatic in view of the Earl's pish-tush gestures. "You ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy
... thing frequently happened with English plays. He would be swept off his feet by a British production; he was at once sure that it would be a success in New York. But New York, more than once, upset this belief. The reason was that Frohman saw these plays as an Englishman. He had the cosmopolitan point of view that the average play-goer in ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
... propagated lies, and stained by his malice that which had been pure and holy. He proclaimed, as a truth, the equality of greatness, and upset all ideas. This is why three hundred and sixty-five sects, lending each other a mutual support, formed a long chain, and wove, so to speak, a net of law. Some put the creature in the place of the ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke
... sooner or later we manage to adapt ourselves to the variations of our environment. The difficulty is to do so without too much friction, and above all to resist the chimerical conceptions of dreamers. Always powerless to re-organise the world, they have often contrived to upset it. ...
— The Psychology of Revolution • Gustave le Bon
... over there beyond the dam, are they? That's where the Gaskell boy come near drowning a year ago, when his boat upset. It's just full of sunken snags for half a mile up the river ...
— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester


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