upset

  • (noun): Disturbance or disruption.
  • (noun): An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
  • (noun): (automobile insurance) An overturn.
  • (noun): An upset stomach.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (verb): To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  • (verb): To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
  • (verb): To tip or overturn (something).
  • (verb): To defeat unexpectedly.
  • (verb): To be upset or knocked over.
  • (verb): To set up; to put upright.
  • (verb): To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
  • (verb): To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
  • (adjective): (of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.
  • (adjective): (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
  • My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
  • "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
  • I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
  • Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
  • Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.