Upsets
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:8 ptsWWF:10 pts6 letters
Definition of Upsets
noun
- Disturbance or disruption.
"My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset."
- An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
""collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason."
- An upset stomach.
- 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.
verb
- To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
"I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know."
- To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
"Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance."
- To tip or overturn (something).
- To defeat unexpectedly.
"Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election."
- To be upset or knocked over.
"The carriage upset when the horse bolted."
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disruptiondisturbancedisruptdisturbforsetturn upside downinvertoverturntipangerdistresssadden