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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



... in a canoe, while she and Pierre sat on the bank watching him. The light craft suddenly upset. Le Gardeur struggled for a few moments, and sank under the blue waves that look so ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... did not like it. Although I had made up my mind to play, I felt averse to doing so on behalf of some one else. In fact, it almost upset my balance, and I entered the gaming rooms with an angry feeling at my heart. At first glance the scene irritated me. Never at any time have I been able to bear the flunkeyishness which one meets in the Press of the world at large, ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... passed to moral questions, and found comfort in the notion That fools are none the worse for things not being what they seem, When, behold, a seeming log became instinct with life and motion, And with sudden curvature of tail upset me in the stream. ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... for the work and the first train crossed on March 11th, 1872. By an agreement made with the city of Omaha that city was to be made the eastern terminus regardless of the bridge. This, however, was upset by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States declaring the bridge an integral part of the line and that it commenced ...
— The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad - Its Projectors, Construction and History • W. F. Bailey
... her native freedom. She had been so stupefied, however, by the exciting events of the preceding day and night, and was so puzzled as to the road she should take, that she went off very deliberately, and with an uncertain step. She went away quite sound in limb, but her intellect may have been upset. Never in all likelihood had she seen the form of a human being until the dreadful moment when she woke from her sleep and found herself in the grip of an Arab. Then her pitching and tossing journey on the back of a camel, and lastly, a soireé with me by candlelight! ...
— Eothen • A. W. Kinglake


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