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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
upend .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective turned up on end
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Examples
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So I kind of upended myself, you know, head first.
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So I kind of upended myself, you know, head first.
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Toll Brothers shed two cents to 18.93 after the luxury-home builder warned "preliminary signs of stability" in the housing market in September were "upended" during the October financial crisis.
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So I kind of upended myself, you know, head first.
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I came to one person who there was a truck that was kind of upended near him.
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I came to one person who, there was a truck that was kind of upended near him, and I didn't want to move him because I knew his back was pretty severely injured, but decided that if the bridge shifted, which I didn't really know where I was in context to the whole thing, so we just kind of quickly decided we were going to move him out of the way.
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With three kids and his family "upended" by divorce, Osborn said now is not the time to worry about an election.
unknown title 2009
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She identified the glyph that represented birth-an "upended" frog.
ArchivesBlogs 2009
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The puppet tries to reason with her and before you know it the entire table is upended and the work comes to a halt thanks to this rather meta-interruption.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Under The Radar and Coil Warm Up January Michael Giltz 2012
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A recent Forrester study upended conventional wisdom by stating that Twitter followers may have the potential to be more valuable than Facebook fans in the future.
Facebook Fans Vs. Twitter Followers: Which Are More Valuable? Patrick Vogt 2010
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