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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.”
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Upset (adjective)
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
“His stomach was upset, so he didn’t want to move.”
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Upset (noun)
Disturbance or disruption.
“My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.”
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Upset (noun)
An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
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Upset (noun)
An overturn.
“”collision and upset”: impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.”
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Upset (noun)
An upset stomach.
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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.
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Upset (verb)
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
“I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.”
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Upset (verb)
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
“Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.”
“The fatty meat upset his stomach.”
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Upset (verb)
To tip or overturn (something).
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Upset (verb)
To defeat unexpectedly.
“Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.”
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Upset (verb)
To be upset or knocked over.
“The carriage upset when the horse bolted.””
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Upset (verb)
To set up; to put upright.
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Upset (verb)
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
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Upset (verb)
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
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Upsetted (verb)
simple past tense and past participle of upset