upset
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.Examples: "He was upset when she refused his friendship."; "My children often get upset with their classmates."; "We were shocked when we asked a disruptive man in the front row to move to the back, and when he subsequently left, the producer's helpers were so upset for him they gave him two free tickets to the next 'women's music' production."Synonyms: angry, distressed and unhappypredicative
2. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.Examples: "His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move."; "Bryan came home from school with an upset tummy."
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.Examples: "My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset."Synonyms: disruption, disturbanceuncountable
2. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.Examples: "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."; "Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history."countable
3. (automobile insurance) An overturn.Examples: ""collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason."countableuncountable
4. (mathematics) 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.countableuncountable
5. (aviation) 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.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
6. (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.Examples: "Willow basket making, an artisan inserting bye-stakes in the upsets."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.Examples: "I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know."Synonyms: anger, distress, forset, sadden, affront, aggravate, anger, antagonizetransitive
2. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).Examples: "Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance."; "The fatty meat upset his stomach."Synonyms: disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down, upend, derangetransitive
3. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).Examples: "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."Synonyms: invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside downtransitive
4. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.Examples: "Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election."Synonyms: upendtransitive
5. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.Examples: "The carriage upset when the horse bolted."; "[T]he locomotive exploded and upset, and was completely wrecked."intransitive
6. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.Examples: "R. of Brunne with sail on mast upset"Synonyms: redress, right, standobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary