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upset

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upset in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
    "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
    overturn  tip over  turn over  upset  knock over  bowl over  tump over 
  2. cause to lose one's composure
    upset  discompose  untune  disconcert  discomfit 
  3. move deeply
    "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
    disturb  upset  trouble 
  4. form metals with a swage
    swage  upset 
  5. disturb the balance or stability of
    "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
    upset 
  6. defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
    "The foreign team upset the local team"
    upset 
adjective
  1. 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"
    broken  confused  disordered  upset 
  2. 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"
    disquieted  distressed  disturbed  upset  worried 
  3. having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
    "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket"
    overturned  upset  upturned 
  4. mildly physically distressed
    "an upset stomach"
    upset 
  5. used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
    "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
    upset 
noun
  1. the act of disturbing the mind or body
    "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
    upset  derangement  overthrow 
  2. a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
    "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"
    disorder  upset 
  3. an unhappy and worried mental state
    "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"
    disturbance  perturbation  upset 
  4. the act of upsetting something
    "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
    upset  overturn  turnover 
  5. an improbable and unexpected victory
    "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
    overturn  upset 
  6. a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
    upset  swage 
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