Dictionary Entry
upset
upset is a 5-letter English word with 25 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set up; to put upright. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 25 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To set up; to put upright.
- 2transitive verb
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
- 3transitive verb
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- 4transitive verb
To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
- 5transitive verb
To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
- 6intransitive verb
To become upset.
- 7adjective
Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
- 8noun
The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
- 9noun
an improbable and unexpected victory
"the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
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- 10noun
the act of upsetting something
"he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"
- 11noun
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"
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- 12noun
a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
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- 13noun
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"
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- 14noun
an unhappy and worried mental state
"there was too much anger and disturbance"
"she didn't realize the upset she caused me"
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- 15verb
disturb the balance or stability of
"The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
- 16verb
defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
"The foreign team upset the local team"
- 17verb
form metals with a swage
Synonyms
- 18verb
move deeply
"This book upset me"
"A troubling thought"
- 19verb
cause to lose one's composure
- 20verb
cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
"The cat knocked over the flower vase"
"the clumsy customer turned over the vase"
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- 21adjective
used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
"the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"
- 22adjective
thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
"troops fleeing in broken ranks"
"a confused mass of papers on the desk"
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- 23adjective
afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
"too upset to say anything"
"spent many disquieted moments"
- 24adjective
having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
"an overturned car"
"the upset pitcher of milk"
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- 25adjective
mildly physically distressed
"an upset stomach"
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