upset
adjective / noun / verb
What it means
- adjective mildly physically distressed “an upset stomach”
- adjective having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom “an overturned car”
- adjective thrown into a state of disarray or confusion “troops fleeing in broken ranks”
- adjective afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief “too upset to say anything”
- noun the act of upsetting something “he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed”
- noun the act of disturbing the mind or body “his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset”
- noun a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- noun an improbable and unexpected victory “the biggest upset since David beat Goliath”
- noun a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning “the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder”
- noun an unhappy and worried mental state “there was too much anger and disturbance”
- verb disturb the balance or stability of “The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries”
- verb defeat suddenly and unexpectedly “The foreign team upset the local team”