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Upset
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- 1 Angry, distressed, or unhappy predicative
"He was upset when she refused his friendship."
- 2 Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
"His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move."
- 1 used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win wordnet
- 2 thrown into a state of disarray or confusion wordnet
- 3 afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief wordnet
- 4 having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom wordnet
- 5 mildly physically distressed wordnet
- 1 Disturbance or disruption. uncountable
"My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset."
- 2 an improbable and unexpected victory wordnet
- 3 An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. countable
"But it is probably the biggest upset for the away side since Ronnie Radford smashed a famous goal as Hereford defeated Newcastle 2-1 in 1972."
- 4 the act of upsetting something wordnet
- 5 An overturn. countable, uncountable
""collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason."
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- 6 the act of disturbing the mind or body wordnet
- 7 An upset stomach. countable, uncountable
"“Bob, let's cancel the baby sitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.” “Sure you can, Liz! Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!”"
- 8 a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging wordnet
- 9 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. countable, uncountable
- 10 a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning wordnet
- 11 The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control. countable, uncountable
"The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the unfavorable interaction of severe vertical air drafts and large longitudinal control displacements resulting in a longitudinal upset from which a successful recovery was not made."
- 12 an unhappy and worried mental state wordnet
- 13 A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket. countable, uncountable
"Willow basket making, an artisan inserting bye-stakes in the upsets."
- 1 To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. transitive
"I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know."
- 2 disturb the balance or stability of wordnet
- 3 To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). transitive
"Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance."
- 4 defeat suddenly and unexpectedly wordnet
- 5 To tip or overturn (something). transitive
"1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001. But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view."
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- 6 form metals with a swage wordnet
- 7 To defeat unexpectedly. transitive
"Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election."
- 8 move deeply wordnet
- 9 To be upset or knocked over. intransitive
"The carriage upset when the horse bolted."
- 10 cause to lose one's composure wordnet
- 11 To set up; to put upright. obsolete
"R. of Brunne with sail on mast upset"
- 12 cause to overturn from an upright or normal position wordnet
- 13 To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- 14 To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- 15 To support with an upset (type of woven row). transitive
"Very coarse work is sided up without an upsett, or is upsetted with a pair instead of a wale."
Etymology
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
See also for "upset"
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