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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   Disturbance or disruption.

   “My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.”

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   (automobile insurance) An overturn.

   “"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.”

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   An upset stomach.

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   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.

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.

7. Meaning 7 · verb

   To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

   “I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.”

8. Meaning 8 · verb

   To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

   “Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.”

9. Meaning 9 · verb

   To tip or overturn (something).

10. Meaning 10 · verb

    To defeat unexpectedly.

    “Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.”

11. Meaning 11 · verb

    To be upset or knocked over.

    “The carriage upset when the horse bolted.”

12. Meaning 12 · verb

    To set up; to put upright.

13. Meaning 13 · verb

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

14. Meaning 14 · verb

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

15. Meaning 15 · adjective

    (of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.

    “He was upset when she refused his friendship.”

16. Meaning 16 · adjective

    (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

    “His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.”

How this word is used

• Everyday “My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.”
• General “"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.”
• Everyday “I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.”
• General “Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.”
• General “Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.”
• General “The carriage upset when the horse bolted.”
• Everyday “He was upset when she refused his friendship.”
• General “His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.”

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