Definition of Upset

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Definition of Upset

Upset

To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner.

To set up; to put upright.

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

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

To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.

To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.

To become upset.

Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.

The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

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Upset Quotations

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Jackie Kennedy

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
Albert Ellis

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
Albert Ellis

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.
Denzel Washington

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
Toni Morrison

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
Calvin Klein

Upset Translations

upset in Afrikaans is verward, deurmekaar, verbysterd
upset in Dutch is beduusd, bedremmeld, beteuterd
upset in Finnish is kumota
upset in Latin is commoveo, turbo
upset in Norwegian is kantre
upset in Portuguese is virada
upset in Spanish is indispuesta

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