upset
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(predicative)(of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
He was upset when she refused his friendship.
My children often get upset with their classmates.
Đồng nghĩa: sore
- 2.
(of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
Bryan came home from school with an upset tummy.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)Disturbance or disruption.
My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
- 2.
(countable)(countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)(automobile insurance) An overturn.
"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)An upset stomach.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)(mathematics) 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.
(countable, uncountable)(aviation) 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.
(countable, uncountable)(basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
Đồng nghĩa: anger, distress, forset, sadden, affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off, cross, embitter, envenom, gall, get, get to, honk off, incense, inflame, infuriate, madden, make angry, nark, offend, outrage, provoke, put out, rankle, rile, piss off, roil, set off, steam, tick off, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, set up someone's birse, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate, darken, dash, deject, depress, desolate, dispirit, engrieve, forset, get down, grieven, moan, oppress, repent, rue, sadden, sadden up, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset
- 2.
(transitive)To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
The fatty meat upset his stomach.
Đồng nghĩa: disrupt, disturb, forset, turn upside down, upend, derange
- 3.
(transitive)To tip or overturn (something).
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.
Đồng nghĩa: invert, overturn, forset, tip, tip over, tip up, turn over, turn upside down, upend
- 4.
(transitive)To defeat unexpectedly.
Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
Đồng nghĩa: upend
- 5.
(intransitive)To be upset or knocked over.
The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- 6.
(obsolete)To set up; to put upright.
R. of Brunne with sail on mast upset
Đồng nghĩa: redress, right, stand
- 7.
(metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- 8.
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
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(transitive)(transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
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From Middle English upset (the act of setting up; establishment), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with upset.