upend
IPA: ˈʌpɛnd
verb
- (transitive) To end up; to set on end.
- To tip or turn over.
- (figurative) To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.
- To affect or upset drastically.
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Examples of "upend" in Sentences
- Half of it upended from how we do things.
- I just upend the shaker for a few seconds.
- Please upend this page and take that information down.
- The adults breathe by going to the surface and upending.
- Being upended out of the water was a pretty dramatic result.
- I am currently in the process of upending my bedroom for it.
- The cover depicted an upended royal crown and a broken scepter.
- The submarine upended and sank, killing the entire German crew.
- Carcass and belt separately are upended, to axis vertical positions.
- Upend is a village in the east of the English county of Cambridgeshire.