turn upside down

English

Alternative forms

• turn upside-down

Verb

turn upside down

1. (transitive, intransitive) To flip over; to rotate top to bottom.

   Turn the box upside down and look at the bottom.

   Synonyms: flip over, turn over

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To thoroughly examine.

   They turned the house upside down looking for the car keys.

Translations

to rotate top to bottom

• French: renverser (fr)
• Galician: envorcar, voltear (gl)
• German: umdrehen (de)
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• Latin: invertō
• Ngazidja Comorian: ukausa