upset
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(s) 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
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(s) 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
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(s) used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers
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(s) mildly physically distressed
- an upset stomach
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(s) 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
Nouns
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(n) 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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(n) 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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(n) 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
- (n) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging swage,
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(n) the act of upsetting something
- he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed
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(n) an improbable and unexpected victory
- the biggest upset since David beat Goliath
Verbs
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(v) disturb the balance or stability of
- The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries
- (v) cause to lose one's composure discomfit, discompose, untune, disconcert,
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(v) move deeply
- This book upset me
- A troubling thought
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(v) 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
- (v) form metals with a swage swage,
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(v) defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- The foreign team upset the local team