Upset
WordNet
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"
(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"
(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"
(4) Mildly physically distressed
"An upset stomach"
noun
(5) An improbable and unexpected victory
"The biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
(6) The act of upsetting something
"He was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
(7) 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"
(8) A tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
(9) 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"
(10) An unhappy and worried mental state
"There was too much anger and disturbance"
"She didn't realize the upset she caused me"
verb
(11) Disturb the balance or stability of
"The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
(12) Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
"The foreign team upset the local team"
(13) Form metals with a swage
(14) Move deeply
"This book upset me"
"A troubling thought"
(15) Cause to lose one's composure
(16) 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"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Disturbance or disruption.
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
- (sports) An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.
- The Nimrods defeated the Blue Devils yesterday in a stunning upset.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
Verb
- To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
- To tip or overturn (something).
- 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.
- 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
- To defeat unexpectedly.
- Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.