Upset vs. Upsetted

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  • Upset (adjective)

    Angry, distressed{{,}} or unhappy.

    “He was upset when she refused his friendship.”

    “My children often get upset with their classmates.”

  • Upset (adjective)

    Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

    “His stomach was upset, so he didn’t want to move.”

  • Upset (noun)

    Disturbance or disruption.

    “My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.”

  • Upset (noun)

    An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.

  • Upset (noun)

    An overturn.

    “”collision and upset”: impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.”

  • Upset (noun)

    An upset stomach.

  • Upset (noun)

    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.

  • Upset (verb)

    To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

    “I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.”

  • Upset (verb)

    To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

    “Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.”

    “The fatty meat upset his stomach.”

  • Upset (verb)

    To tip or overturn (something).

  • Upset (verb)

    To defeat unexpectedly.

    “Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.”

  • Upset (verb)

    To be upset or knocked over.

    “The carriage upset when the horse bolted.””

  • Upset (verb)

    To set up; to put upright.

  • Upset (verb)

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

  • Upset (verb)

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

  • Upsetted (verb)

    simple past tense and past participle of upset

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