What does upend mean?
Upend means (transitive) To end up; to set on end..
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/ʌpˈɛnd/ · verb
(transitive) To end up; to set on end..
When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both.
upend the box and empty the contents
Venezuela, who introduced the exciting 17-year-old Samuel Sosa late on, pressed forward and eventually carved out a golden opportunity to level. Jake Clarke-Salter, the Chelsea defender, upended Peñaranda inside the box and after consulting the threesome of video officials inside the Suwon World Cup stadium, the referee, Bjorn Kuipers, pointed to the spot.
The scientific evidence upended the popular myth.
James Meredith's forced admission was a milestone in upending the old order in America's most segregated state, a kind of race relations ground zero.
What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
By the middle of March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic upended normal life for virtually all Americans.
Coral, another company trying to upend the salon industry, obtained $4.3 million in venture funding around the same time. But Bradley Leong, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, said that because they could not get the device’s price as low as they had hoped in its current iteration, they were making it semirobotic to decrease the cost.
Use upend when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Upend means (transitive) To end up; to set on end..
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When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both.
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