upsets

/AH0 P S EH1 T S/

noun

1
Disturbance or disruption.
“My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.”
2
An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
3
(automobile insurance) An overturn.
“"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.”
4
An upset stomach.
5
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
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.

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verb

1
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
“I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.”
2
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
“Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.”
3
To tip or overturn (something).
4
To defeat unexpectedly.
“Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.”
5
To be upset or knocked over.
“The carriage upset when the horse bolted.”
6
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.

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