Upturned in a sentence as an adjective

We know water stays in upturned but not overturned glasses because we've seen it do so.

I kinda enjoy seeing my prejudices being upturned.

Come on, this is Hacker News - stepping on an upturned PCB in the dark has to be some sort of prerequisite of membership?

>I get enough emails as it is from whacko's who think they've upturned Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, or created some perpetual motion machine.

I get enough emails as it is from whacko's who think they've upturned Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, or created some perpetual motion machine.

The image I'm left with is that of an overgrown playground filled with active mines, but most of the mines have upturned buckets over them so you probably won't step on them, and that's supposed to make it a great place to send your kids.

If not that, at the very least they can strongly protest against the decisions and policy made, vote for a third party and break the two-party system, or vote / demand the voting and government system to be upturned to stop having to choose for the lesser or two evils in the form of a single man who will get most of the blame and responsibility for poor governmental decisions.

Upturned definitions

adjective

having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk"; "sat on an upturned bucket"

See also: overturned upset

adjective

(used of noses) turned up at the end; "a retrousse nose"; "a small upturned nose"

See also: retrousse tip-tilted