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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upset
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stomach upset (=when your stomach is affected by illness)
▪ The boy had a stomach upset after eating berries from the garden.
an upset stomach (=a stomach affected by illness)
▪ Debbie was at home because she had an upset stomach.
be alarmed/appalled/upset etc at the prospect (of sth)
▪ She was secretly appalled at the prospect of being looked after by her aunt.
disrupt/upset sb’s routine
▪ She disliked things that disrupted her routine.
tummy bug/upsetBritish English (= an illness of the stomach that makes you vomit)
upset the arrangements (=cause problems which spoil the arrangements)
▪ I don’t want to upset your arrangements.
upset the balance (=make it less equal or correct)
▪ The move could upset the delicate balance of power in the Middle East.
visibly shaken/shocked/upset etc
▪ She was visibly shaken by the news.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
stomach
▪ Backache, headache, insomnia, upset stomach, irritability.
▪ He missed the 2-2 draw with Boro because of an upset stomach. and reserve Iain Jenkins is standing-by.
▪ Wainwright will play despite having returned from representing the Barbarians in the Hong Kong Sevens suffering from an upset stomach.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "What's the matter with Rod?" "I think he's still upset that we forgot his birthday."
▪ Don't be upset. I'm sure she didn't mean to be unkind.
▪ Liz is very upset about her uncle's death.
▪ Miss Hurley is too upset to speak to anyone at the moment.
▪ She's still upset about her uncle's death.
▪ The children were very upset when we told them that we wouldn't be going to Disneyland.
▪ The organizers were upset that so few people visited the exhibition.
▪ We'd better not tell Mum about what's happened. She'll only get upset.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Evidence of identification was given by the college chaplain who said he was too upset to talk about the death.
▪ Now Snyde's about to take over the control of copying and the Copy Master is upset about it.
▪ Orton wrote to Williams hoping he wasn't too upset.
▪ She had already started to retreat into eating when she felt upset.
▪ Snowy said she didn't mind, but Jane still felt upset.
▪ The monster after committing this atrocity felt upset.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
▪ If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset.
▪ Friends and family members here who have spoken with Makharadze by telephone since the accident describe him as deeply upset.
▪ Mr Pollock's family are deeply upset by the claim, according to their minister, the Rev Trevor Gribben.
▪ This mollified investors but deeply upset employees.
particularly
▪ Despite the squeal she didn't seem particularly upset.
▪ They called themselves the Clamshell Alliance after the local clam fishers, who had been particularly upset by the plan.
▪ What particularly upset them, in some cases, was the negative tone, as they saw it, of assessments.
visibly
▪ Gretzky was visibly upset after skating over to check on his wife.
▪ He gets visibly upset when talking about the transplants, saying they needlessly subject children to harrowing side effects.
■ NOUN
apple
▪ As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
▪ Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart, which is precisely what happened in Florida.
▪ Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or some one comes along to upset the apple cart.
balance
▪ The proposed law would upset that balance in favor of property owners.
▪ The finish is also more permanent and does not upset the float's balance.
▪ She has upset the natural balance of the world, including the ecology of Earth and Heaven.
▪ In general landowners were expected to work the land and to increase productivity, but not to upset the ecological balance.
▪ Critics say the law upsets the balance of power by delegating legislative authority to the executive branch.
▪ The chemicals upset the balance of the environment and killed not only the whitefly but also other wildlife including the bumble bee.
▪ They upset the delicate balance of interests on which high organizational performance is so often based.
cart
▪ As I said, you could have upset the apple cart badly.
▪ Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart, which is precisely what happened in Florida.
▪ Just when you think you have got your finances whipped into shape something or some one comes along to upset the apple cart.
father
▪ When I fought against it, the resulting unpleasantness always upset my father.
▪ She was upset my father would think it could affect her feelings.
parent
▪ The girl did not like her father and was upset when her divorced parents got back together.
▪ But her study of them and conclusions are likely to upset many parents whose children have been classified as such.
▪ This is not a dangerous complication, has no aftereffects, and requires no treatments, but it does upset parents.
people
▪ He hated to upset people, especially his own children.
▪ We had some pretty upset people.
▪ Odd then that we are still at liberty to buy foreign cars, even though this might upset people in Birmingham.
▪ Since some of that art is protest art, it inevitably upsets some people.
▪ It's not blasphemous, it's not going to upset people.
▪ That could be fatal, she said, and would upset a lot of people.
▪ This cosy arrangement upset a lot of people and an angry crowd gathered outside the palace.
plan
▪ She'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans.
▪ They called themselves the Clamshell Alliance after the local clam fishers, who had been particularly upset by the plan.
▪ Iconoclasts, however, can upset the best laid plans of stereotyped one-day skippers.
stomach
▪ If you had a stomach upset you were sent to Mrs. Sutton who sold you a powder for tuppence.
▪ The cold symptoms, the stomach upset, the fevers all pointed to flu.
▪ Additionally, many people report stomach upsets, ear infections and rashes after coming into contact with the lake water.
▪ John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset.
▪ Symptoms can include stomach upsets, headaches, sore throats, asthma and tiredness.
▪ A less severe cough, cold, throat or stomach upset etc. may need a dose 2 or 3 times a day.
■ VERB
become
▪ Kristina became very upset with Dennis for not being able to solve the program problem.
▪ Sometimes, high producers become upset over the low productivity of others.
▪ Presently they begin to believe that these are their proper roles and become upset when challenged.
▪ They're likely to become emotionally upset.
▪ After an exchange with Bonin, Zimmer became so upset that he had to be restrained.
feel
▪ We feel it may have upset her mentally.
▪ If you feel upset by an apparent unfairness, pursue the matter through the grievance procedure.
▪ I felt pretty upset about six months ago when it all started.
▪ She felt on edge, upset by all the emotional ups and downs.
▪ As some one bereaved through the disease, I felt angry and upset by the flippancy with which you dealt with this subject.
get
▪ I get upset all the time on that show.
▪ You get upset in the most florid ways, the most extreme hyperbole.
▪ She sits around like a spider waiting for him to get upset so she can comfort him.
▪ Respond to personal attack by getting angry or upset.
▪ And the prime actors-the privileged few-could get very upset by this.
▪ He gets visibly upset when talking about the transplants, saying they needlessly subject children to harrowing side effects.
seem
▪ I took it off Uncle when he was doolally, because it seemed to upset him.
▪ But this time around, few others in Washington seem particularly surprised or upset, either.
▪ This seemed to upset Leslie disproportionately.
▪ You seem upset, Mr McMurphy.
▪ You seemed to have upset him rather.
▪ She seemed really upset, her voice trembling a little.
▪ Despite the squeal she didn't seem particularly upset.
▪ He seemed genuinely upset that the boy had been killed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Why's he crying?" "I don't know - something must have upset him."
▪ France upset Brazil in the World Cup final.
▪ Her father died when she was ten, and it still upsets her to think about it.
▪ I'm sorry - I didn't mean to upset you.
▪ I'm sorry if I upset you - I didn't mean to.
▪ It still upsets me to think about my parents' divorce.
▪ One of the kids upset a bottle of water on the table.
▪ Recent bank failures threaten to upset the entire world economy.
▪ Rowan said this latest outbreak of violence could upset the peace talks.
▪ She was careful not to upset the bottle of nail polish on the bed.
▪ The closing of the plant threatens to upset the local economy.
▪ The idea of having to change school seemed to upset him more than we thought it would.
▪ Try not to upset your father. He's had a hard day.
▪ What upsets me most is the way she lied to me.
▪ Young children don't like anything which upsets their daily routine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Football fans and coaches were outraged that their schedules were being upset.
▪ It used to upset me - really, you have no idea.
▪ Positions might have been changed and the precarious political balance upset by any intensification of the spiritual pollution campaign.
III.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Unseating Gramm would be an even bigger upset.
emotional
▪ These two cases also illustrate the effect that emotional blocks or upsets can have on the overall health of the individual.
■ NOUN
stomach
▪ In general, children and adults should not be given too much milk to drink if they are recovering from a stomach upset.
▪ Some even insert caffeine suppositories before a race in an attempt to provide a sustained dose with no stomach upset.
▪ Carbon monoxide can cause headaches and stomach upsets or, at worse, be fatal.
▪ Kylie has felt the pace and has spent the past 24 hours in bed with a stomach upset.
■ VERB
cause
▪ Carbon monoxide can cause headaches and stomach upsets or, at worse, be fatal.
▪ Knowing your vulnerability Sometimes it is important to defend a principle even though it is controversial and will cause an upset.
pull
▪ For a while, after the polls closed, it looked as if Mr Reynolds might pull off a stunning upset.
▪ To their credit, South Alabama stuck with that nasty strategy and almost pulled off the upset.
▪ That theory was demonstrated as the Lakers nearly pulled off the upset in the closing seconds.
▪ They pulled a mild upset of eighth-seeded but nationally revered Duke in the first round.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Stephanie White led Purdue to an upset over No. 4-ranked Stanford.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And two years later, he skippered the side when they lost ingloriously to Sheffield Eagles in a monumental upset.
▪ But, like all professionals, Fisher is prone to the odd upset.
▪ It is possible that these symptoms are due to hormonal upsets, caused by anti-bodies affecting the ovaries.
▪ The trivial upsets of daily living assume importance but the big tragedies they take in their stride.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upset

Upset \Up"set`\, n. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

Upset

Upset \Up*set"\, v. t.

  1. To set up; to put upright. [Obs.] ``With sail on mast upset.''
    --R. of Brunne.

    1. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

    2. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

  3. To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. ``Determined somehow to upset the situation.''
    --Mrs. Humphry Ward.

  4. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. [Colloq.]

  5. (Basketwork) To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner.

Upset

Upset \Up*set"\, v. i. To become upset.

Upset

Upset \Up"set`\, a. Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.

After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan.
--Sir W. Scott.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
upset

mid-15c., "to set up, fix," from up (adv.) + set (v.). Similar formation in Middle Dutch opsetten "set up, propose," German aufsetzen. Modern sense of "overturn, capsize" (1803) is that of obsolete overset. In reference to the stomach, from 1834. Meaning "to throw into mental discomposure" is from 1805. Related: Upsetting.

upset

early 15c., "insurrection," from upset (v.). Meaning "overturning of a vehicle or boat" is recorded from 1804.

upset

early 14c., "erected," past participle adjective from upset (v.). From 1805 as "distressed."

Wiktionary
upset

  1. 1 (context of a person English) angry, distressed(,) or unhappy. 2 (context of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as '''stomach''' English) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit. n. 1 (context uncountable English) disturbance or disruption. 2 (context countable sports English) An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. 2 (context transitive English) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). 3 (context transitive English) To tip or overturn (something). 4 (context transitive English) To defeat unexpectedly. 5 (context intransitive English) To be upset or knocked over. 6 (context obsolete English) 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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WordNet
upset

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

  2. cause to lose one's composure [syn: discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit]

  3. move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought" [syn: disturb, trouble]

  4. 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" [syn: overturn, tip over, turn over, knock over, bowl over, tump over]

  5. form metals with a swage [syn: swage]

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

  7. [also: upsetting]

upset

  1. adj. 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" [syn: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried]

  2. 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" [syn: broken, confused, disordered]

  3. used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers" [syn: upset(a)]

  4. mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"

  5. 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" [syn: overturned, upturned]

  6. n. an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me" [syn: disturbance, perturbation]

  7. 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" [syn: derangement, overthrow]

  8. 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" [syn: disorder]

  9. a tool used to thicken or spread (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging [syn: swage]

  10. the act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed" [syn: overturn, turnover]

  11. an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath" [syn: overturn]

  12. [also: upsetting]

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Wikipedia
Upset (band)

Upset are an American band formed in 2013. The band originally consisted of Ali Koehler on guitar and lead vocals, Jenn Prince on lead guitar and vocals, and Patty Schemel on drums. After the recording and release of their debut album She's Gone, Prince departed the band to work on other projects, with Lauren Freeman joining the band on lead guitar and Rachel Gagliardi on bass and vocals. Koehler is the former drummer of the bands Best Coast and Vivian Girls. Schemel rose to prominence as the drummer of Hole and currently also drums for the band Death Valley Girls. The band released their debut album on Don Giovanni Records on October 29, 2013.

Upset

An upset occurs in a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports, when the party popularly expected to win (the favorite), is defeated by an underdog whom the majority expects to lose, defying the conventional wisdom. The underdog then becomes a giant-killer.

The meaning of the word has sometimes been erroneously attributed to the surprising defeat of the horse Man o' War by the horse Upset (the loss was the only one in Man o' War's career); the term pre-dates that 1919 race by at least several decades. In its sports coverage immediately following Upset's victory, the Washington Post wrote, "One might make all sorts of puns about it being an upset."

Upset (disambiguation)

Upset may refer to:

  • Upset, in a competition where a likely winner loses to an underdog.
  • Upset forging, a forging process where a workpiece's diameter is increased by compressing its length.
  • Depression (mood), upset emotionally.
  • Upset (wastewater treatment), temporarily decreased effluent quality
  • Upset (horse), the only thoroughbred horse to defeat the racehorse Man o' War.
  • Upset (chemical release), an unplanned release of toxic emissions by chemical processing plants
  • Upper set, (in mathematics), also called an upward closed set or just an upset, is a subset Y of a given partially ordered set (X,≤) such that, for all elements x and y, if x is less than or equal to y and x is an element of Y, then y is also in Y.
  • Aircraft upset (in aviation), a dangerous condition in aircraft operations which may result in the loss of control of the aircraft
Upset (horse)

Upset was notable as the only horse to have ever defeated Man o' War. Man o' War, who won 20 of his 21 starts, faced Upset in the Sanford Memorial at Saratoga Race Course on August 13, 1919. Losing by a nose, Man o' War was, nonetheless, considered the best horse in the race, as he had been fractious at the starting line, left last and was three to four lengths behind the field. He also carried 15 pounds more than Upset. Post-race analysis was that he would have won the race had it been longer. The loss snapped a six-race winning streak by Man o' War.

Upset was owned by Harry Payne Whitney. The two horses met six more times, including in the 1920 Preakness Stakes, with Man o' War victorious every time.

While it is widely believed that the term " upset", referring to a surprising loss, originated with this horse, that is not the case. The use of the word in horse racing dates to at least 1877, and the meaning "to overturn" or "overthrow" appears to be even older.

Usage examples of "upset".

But the strongest argument in their favour was that adduced by Lord Althorp, which was to the effect, that, if his motion were lost, it would upset the ministry.

Not only was she a despicable, needy-for-a-man wimp, but there was a chance - admittedly small - that she had upset Katherine.

The train steamed into the advancing Boer army, was fired upon, tried to escape, found the rails blocked behind it, and upset.

The breeze upset them, the eddies near the ground upset them, a passing thought in the mind of the aeronaut upset them.

Quite true what the alienists said: celibacy was extremely bad for you, as bad as going without proper diet or exercise or meditation, and as likely to upset your mental equilibrium.

Frik Van Alman would be more upset about not regaining the artifact than he would ever have been about losing the oil rig.

It is probably apocryphal since, according to Clery, Louis in fact expected to see Malesherbes again and became increasingly upset at his absence in the days that followed.

Maybe the argument had upset her, caused her to blow the most important audition of her career.

Petya was most unhappy and was amazed to see that Auntie, far from being upset or down-hearted, gave the impression of everything being fine.

More ominously, the activist Shia Islam preached by the leader of the revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, threatened to upset the delicate Sunni-Shia balance in Iraq, and a hostile Iran would threaten Iraqi security in the Gulf.

Darla was upset by the incident of the Bandersnatch, her suspicions about Corey Rhizome were fully confirmed a few months later when Kellee Kaarp came over to visit.

American production schedules had been upset in April 1942 to give top priority to landing and beaching craft for the cross-Channel operation that was canceled, and again in January 1943 schedules were upset to give top priority to ships for antisubmarine warfare.

The sickness upset them for the day, so that the force remained there, at bivouac in the village, until the next morning.

When Billy saw her go he ran down the altar steps, upsetting a near-sighted deacon who was coming up to help drive him out, and bleating to Betty that he was coming he rushed through the door.

He longed desperately for bracky, and had to keep reminding himself that no drugs must upset the tests.