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/əpsˈɛt/ /ˈəpsˌɛt/ Listen

adjective

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. "After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan."

verb

Upset v. t. (past & past part. upset; pres. part. upsetting)

To set up; to put upright. (Obs.) "With sail on mast upset."

(a)

To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

(b)

To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. "Determined somehow to upset the situation."

To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. (Colloq.)

(Basketwork) 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.

Upset v. i. (past & past part. upset; pres. part. upsetting) To become upset.

noun

Upset n. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

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Etymology of 'Upset'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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