UPSET
\ʌpsˈɛt], \ʌpsˈɛt], \ʌ_p_s_ˈɛ_t]\
Definitions of UPSET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
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cause to lose one's composure
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afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "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"
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move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
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mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"
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a tool used to thicken or spread (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
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disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
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used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
By Princeton University
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thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
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cause to lose one's composure
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move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
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mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"
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used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills' upset victory over the Houson Oilers"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To set up; to put upright.
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To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
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To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
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To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
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To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
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To become upset.
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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.
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The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To set up; to put upright.
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To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
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To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
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To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
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To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
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To become upset.
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The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
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Set up; fixed; determined; - used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price.
By Noah Webster.
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To overturn.
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To overthrow; overturn; colioquially, to put out of normal nervous condition.
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The act of overturning or disturbing; state of being overturned; colloquially, mental or physical distrubance.
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Upset, upsetted.
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Upsetting.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To overturn.
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To discompose; confuse.
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Set up; required; as, the upset price.
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The act of upsetting, or state of being upset.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To turn upside down: to overthrow.
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An overturn.
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Relating to what is set up for sale, in phrase UPSET PRICE, the sum at which anything is started at a public sale.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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