upset

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They don't want to upset the apple cart.

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Quick take

an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of upset gathered in one view.

noun

an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"

noun

the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"

noun

a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for upset.

noun

an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"

noun

the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"

noun

a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"

noun

a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging

noun

the act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"

noun

an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"

verb

disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"

verb

cause to lose one's composure

See also: discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit

verb

move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"

verb

cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"

verb

form metals with a swage

verb

defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team"

adjective

afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children"

See also: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried

adjective

thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"

adjective

used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"

adjective

mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"

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"

Example sentences

They don't want to upset the apple cart.

And this upset me, but not for the reasons you think.

The first time it happens you'll be really upset and threaten to sue, and file a police report.

I feel genuine pain and am quite legitimately upset now.

Id be rather upset if a repo maintainer pulled something like this on me.

I do see how some puritanical folks could be upset, because you know, sex is terrible.

The discrepancy between how much jail time the people who upset the government get, and the people who commit real crimes is getting bigger.

Do we want this power to exist, or not?You know for me, the reason I'm upset is that I grew up in school saying the pledge of allegiance.

People are upset because of this new standard of "grab everything, put it in a 'secure' location and mine it in the future for past crimes.

Man, I really feel like those who are upset about this truly wanted it to be "their Bitcoin" -- the cryptocurrency they got on the ground floor for and were hoping would turn out like BTC has.

It sounds from the story that the thing they're most upset about is missing an opportunity to lock down the whole airport while they dressed up as storm troopers and traipsed about in their armored doohickeys pretending to save the world.

If I am a broker who depends for his livelihood in serving a customer base that it took years to develop, I would be rightly upset if someone came in and simply handed all my customer information over to my competitors.

The people who actually work the port asked that they not disrupt the port, but in the end these dreadlocked, shiftless complainers cost those longshoremen a day in wages -- Viva El Proletariado!What we have today is a group of young, electively poor white kids who are upset that the price of unheated lofts and dingy Victorians are being driven up by people who have the means and motivation to actually own and improve them.