upend
See also: up-end
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
upend (third-person singular simple present upends, present participle upending, simple past and past participle upended)
- (transitive) To end up; to set on end.
- To tip or turn over.
- When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both.
- upend the box and empty the contents
- 2017 June 11, Ben Fisher, “England seal Under-20 World Cup glory as Dominic Calvert-Lewin strikes”, in the Guardian[1]:
- Venezuela, who introduced the exciting 17-year-old Samuel Sosa late on, pressed forward and eventually carved out a golden opportunity to level. Jake Clarke-Salter, the Chelsea defender, upended Peñaranda inside the box and after consulting the threesome of video officials inside the Suwon World Cup stadium, the referee, Bjorn Kuipers, pointed to the spot.
- (figurative) To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.
- The scientific evidence upended the popular myth.
- 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times[2]:
- What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
Translations
to end up; to set on end
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to tip or turn over
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to destroy, invalidate