upset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsets
form: upsetting
form: upset
form: upset
Etymology: From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
Senses: examples: text: I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
synonyms: word: anger
word: distress
word: forset
word: sadden
word: affront
word: aggravate
word: anger
word: antagonize
word: awrath
word: burn up
word: cheese off
word: cross
word: embitter
word: envenom
word: gall
word: get
word: get to
word: honk off
word: incense
word: inflame
word: infuriate
word: madden
word: make angry
word: nark
word: offend
word: outrage
word: provoke
word: put out
word: rankle
word: rile
word: piss off
word: roil
word: set off
word: steam
word: tick off
word: get one's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: make someone see red
word: make someone's blood boil
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: raise someone's shag
word: rattle someone's cage
word: rub the wrong way
word: ruffle some feathers
word: set up someone's birse
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
examples: text: Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
text: The fatty meat upset his stomach.
synonyms: disrupt
disturb
forset
turn upside down
upend
derange
glosses: To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
examples: 1924, W. D. Ross translator, Aristitle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 9, The Classical Library, Nashotah, Wisconsin, 2001.
But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
synonyms: invert
overturn
forset
tip
tip over
tip up
turn over
turn upside down
upend
glosses: To tip or overturn (something).
examples: text: Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
synonyms: upend
glosses: To defeat unexpectedly.
examples: text: The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
text: [T]he locomotive exploded and upset, and was completely wrecked.
ref: 1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9:
glosses: To be upset or knocked over.
examples: R. of Brunne
with sail on mast upset
synonyms: redress
right
stand
glosses: To set up; to put upright.
glosses: To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
glosses: To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
examples: text: Very coarse work is sided up without an upsett, or is upsetted with a pair instead of a wale.
ref: 2012, Thomas Okey, An Introduction to the Art of Basket-Making, page 32:
glosses: To support with an upset (type of woven row).
Synonyms: word: agitate
word: freak
word: bother
word: bring down
word: discompose
word: disconcert
word: enturbulate
word: disturb
word: mortify
word: perturb
word: put out
word: ruffle
word: throw off balance
word: unsettle
word: upset
Hypernyms: word: affect
word: emove
word: inflict
Hyponyms: word: abash
word: annoy
word: enrage
word: frighten
word: sadden
word: vex
Derived terms: upset the applecart
upset the natives