upset
Pronunciation: /ʌpˈsɛt/
The English word “upset” has 18 meanings listed here.
adjective
noun
- Disturbance or disruption.
- An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- An overturn.
- An upset stomach.
- 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.
- 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.
- A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb
- To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- To tip or overturn (something).
- To defeat unexpectedly.
- To be upset or knocked over.
- To set up; to put upright.
- 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.
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- To support with an upset (type of woven row).
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”).
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