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
- New economic problems could "upend" the last leg of the presidential
- Harder to estimate is how irrational fears could upend those calculations.
- But a win by Mr. Gingrich would upend the perception that Mr. Romney is the inevitable GOP nominee.
- Their abrupt departures—following a series of controversial public comments by Mr. Ratner—threatened to upend what is typically a meticulously calculated, lavish affair.
- Speaking during the first of the BBC Daily Politics debates between party spokesmen, the foreign secretary said Cameron appeared to want to "upend" sixty years of cooperation with the Chinese.
- Departing Justice David H. Souter sided with the minority in this case, expressing dismay in his dissent and suggesting the decision could "upend," said the Times, the federal civil litigation system.
- The Fed's new rules "upend" the card business and fast-forwarding them would "create huge implementation challenges," said Kenneth Clayton, senior vice president of card policy at the American Bankers Association.
- He had come into power, in 1969, against the background of the time—an era when the Arab world still believed that rough men from the military would dispense justice, upend the old order of kings and notables, and bring about a "revolutionary" society.
- Mr. Blinder's hindsight observations of the euro-zone problems mirror the foresight of many European economists who rigorously defined the criteria for an optimum currency-zone, during the formative years of the EMU and EMS. Then, as now, the political leaders attempted to upend economic law by mandating all members to meet the optimum currency-zone criteria through "Maastricht" rules, rather than creating a currency zone from the set of countries meeting the criteria.
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