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upend

[ uhp-end ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to set on end, as a barrel or ship.
  2. to affect drastically or radically, as tastes, opinions, reputations, or systems.
  3. to defeat in competition, as in boxing or business.


verb (used without object)

  1. to become upended.
  2. to place the body back-end up, as a dabbling duck.

upend

/ ʌpˈɛnd /

verb

  1. to turn or set or become turned or set on end
  2. tr to affect or upset drastically
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of upend1

First recorded in 1815–25; up- + end 1
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Example Sentences

Fortune recently spoke with cofounders Shipman and Renahan to learn more about their insights and predictions for their business and the plant-based food industry after a year in which grocery shopping was completely upended.

From Fortune

Even as the pandemic upends the restaurant world, this reform can and must happen.

From Eater

It also shows that the same disruptive sentiments that upended American politics in recent years are now taking aim at the financial system.

It’s a huge understatement to say the pandemic upended everything.

The disease’s terrifying ability to so swiftly upend the rhythms and rituals of everyday life only added to the war’s larger social disruptions.

It is a revolutionary story, which threatens to upend the world as we know it.

It would inject a threat of accountability into power, and upend the impunity wartime leaders had operated under for years.

In August, Sen. Ted Cruz linked the need to upend the IRS to its abuse of power.

[S]omething larger is going on here, which could upend everything and produce unintended consequences.

The one event that could upend that is an encore from a passive, disengaged Obama.

It is safe, as we will never meet again, and all ideas of justice will upend in the coming cataclysm.

The log plunges after him, holding him down and back till he drowns; and his whereabouts are revealed by the upend of the tree.

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