upset

IPA: ʌpsˈɛt

noun

  • (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
  • (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
  • (automobile insurance) An overturn.
  • An upset stomach.
  • (mathematics) 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.
  • (aviation) 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.

verb

  • (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
  • (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
  • (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
  • (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
  • (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
  • To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
  • To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

adjective

  • (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
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Examples of "upset" in Sentences

  • Ravens praise cool, collected Flacco in upset of Titans
  • Ravens praise cool, collected Flacco in upset of Titans - USATODAY. com
  • The DVD has a few roundtable discussions about the title, so I guess the title upset some folks.
  • Sherk was one of the big victories for Edgar as he made his way to the title upset victory over B.J.
  • But not as many, I suspect, as will remain upset about the passage of health care legislation after statements such asthese.
  • But the lesson of Massachusetts, and this unbelievable upset is that Barack Obama, his policy and politics are a drag on the party and that he does more harm than good, to the party and the country.
  • But to be coolly flouted, and to have all the work of a term upset by three wretched youngsters, who called themselves his affectionate young friends, was a drop too much in the bucket of the "spider's" humiliation.
  • You welcome for you freedom to spew total BS, But do not think a Vet will not drop you in the dirt in a heart beat. cause theres nothing gets a AMERICAN Vet. more upset is went pencil neck pin head cowards like your self try to play tough guy.
  • I wonder whether this upset is about something other than a desire to protect American sovereignty, for, as I have pointed out, that sovereignty is in no danger from the use of persuasive authority by foreign sources, any more than it is endangered by the citation to law reviews and learned treatises.

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