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adjective

Upset adj. 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. "After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan."

verb

Upset v. t. (past & past part. upset; pres. part. upsetting)

To set up; to put upright. (Obs.) "With sail on mast upset."

(a)

To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

(b)

To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. "Determined somehow to upset the situation."

To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. (Colloq.)

(Basketwork) To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner.

Upset v. i. (past & past part. upset; pres. part. upsetting) To become upset.

noun

Upset n. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

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Etymology of 'Upset'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... "She is terribly upset. You see, the Squire was the only father she had ever known; and had he been really so he could not have been kinder. It is a grievous loss to me also, after ten years of happiness here; but I have had but little time to think of my own loss yet, I have been too occupied ...

— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty

... mental calculation is a typical case of this sort of attention. But often the readjustment is more difficult. Factors are introduced which at first refuse to be reconciled with the rest of the conscious content. The attentive equilibrium is upset, and there are violent shifts back and forth as it seeks to recover itself. These are the cases of violent emotion. Between these two extremes comes every shade of difficulty in the readjustment, and of consequent intensity in emotional ...

— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas

... more prominent, the child begins to turn its face away from the light because it makes its eyes smart, and complains not so much of soreness as of a peppery, burning, itching sensation in its nose and throat. The tongue is coated, the stomach mildly upset; the little patient is more uncomfortable and fretful than seriously ill. This condition drags on, without apparently getting anywhere, for from two to four days, during which time it is often very difficult even for the most experienced physician ...

— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson

... outside withdrew across the street to grapple with the problem before them. It was obviously impossible for civilized men to sacrifice Sam, even if they could catch him—which they could not. Sam had bolted through the dining-room, upset the Chinaman in the kitchen, and fallen over a bucket of ashes in the coal-shed in his flight for freedom. He had not stopped at that, but had scurried off up the railroad track. The general opinion among the spectators was that he had, by this time, ...

— The Uphill Climb • B. M. Bower

... for the bear costume made its wearer clumsy and he awkwardly tripped and nearly upset Patty. But she good-naturedly tried the steps over and over until they ...

— Patty Blossom • Carolyn Wells

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