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Definition upset

Etymology

From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- +‎ set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).

Adjective

upset (comparative more upset, superlative most upset)

  1. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  2. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

Noun

upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)

  1. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
  2. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
  3. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
  4. An upset stomach.
  5. (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. (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.

Verb

upset (third-person singular simple present upsets, present participle upsetting, simple past and past participle upset)

  1. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
  2. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
  3. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
  4. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
  5. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
  6. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
  7. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
  8. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

Results 486 Words with the letters UPSET

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9 letter words with the letters UPSET 
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6 letter words with the letters UPSET 
ERUPTS 10
GETUPS 12
LETUPS 11
PUREST 10
PUTZES 19
SEPTUM 13
SETUPS 10
STUPES 10
TAUPES 10
UNSTEP 11
UPSENT 11
UPSETS 10
UPSTEP 13
5 letter words with the letters UPSET 
4 letter words with the letters UPSET 
PEST 7
PETS 7
PUTS 8
SEPT 7
SPUE 8
STEP 7
SUET 5
SUPE 8
TUPS 8
UTES 5
3 letter words with the letters UPSET 
PES 6
PET 6
PUS 7
PUT 7
SET 3
SUE 4
SUP 7
TUP 7
UPS 7
USE 4
UTE 4
UTS 4
2 letter words with the letters UPSET 
ES 2
ET 2
PE 5
UP 6
US 3
UT 3

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