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Definition of upend in English: upendverbʌpˈɛndˌəpˈɛnd [with object]1Set or turn (something) on its end or upside down. she upended a can of soup over the portions Example sentencesExamples - Open all the little bottles they give you and upend them in the water.
- I upended the pumpkin and cut the bottom out of it, then put it outside on our backdeck, over the decklight, sparing us the need to use a candle or a flashlight to light him up.
- His ocean survival unit holds 12 people and has a curved underwater fibreglass section that should stop high waves and wind upending the craft, unlike traditional flat-bottomed inflatables.
- Mr Ebener, along with other horrified spectators, was stunned when Mr Gloystein upended the magnum bottle and proceeded to pour it all over the head of Mr Ottmann.
- When trying to begin an experiment which involves cress seedlings, do not upend the seed packet and tip cress seeds all over the floor.
- He had upended the bottle when he slammed the door.
- Harris suggested that teachers should challenge students, upend their settled ideas, and expose them to worlds far beyond their own experiences.
- So they upended the futon and assembled the bed in my bedroom.
- This completely upends conventional wisdom about the war, and requires a certain amount of historical amnesia.
- Most recently, he teamed up with archaeologists near his Livingston, Montana, home to research a burial site that may upend theories of how humans arrived in America.
- Almost worse, he says, was the insult of troops upending ashtrays, of throwing his clothes on the floor and stepping on them, and of smashing open suitcases they could easily have opened.
- Frozen disks of meat were dropped onto one rotating chain; upended buns onto another.
- But it took the council a week to collect Mr Warner's bin, and he said that when the binmen did finally arrive they simply upended his green bin in to his black bin before taking it off to landfill.
- I turned to fetch milk from the fridge and in the process managed to upend the iron, which promptly headed for the floor and landed with a crash, rendering it somewhat ‘dismantled’ and burning the floor just for good measure.
Synonyms upturned, upended, bottom up, wrong side up, head over heels, inverted, reversed, overturned, capsized, upset, flipped - 1.1no object (of a swimming duck or other waterbird) submerge the head and foreparts in order to feed, so that the tail is raised in the air.
a pair of swans were feeding by upending Synonyms set upright, place vertical, set up, put up, stand, stand up, stand on end
Rhymes amend, append, apprehend, ascend, attend, befriend, bend, blend, blende, commend, comprehend, condescend, contend, defriend, depend, emend, end, expend, extend, fend, forfend, friend, impend, interdepend, lend, mend, misapprehend, misspend, offend, on-trend, Oostende, Ostend, perpend, portend, rend, reprehend, scrag-end, send, spend, subtend, suspend, tail end, tend, transcend, trend, underspend, unfriend, vend, weekend, wend Definition of upend in US English: upendverbˌəpˈɛndˌəpˈend [with object]1Set or turn (something) on its end or upside down. Kitty upended her purse, dumping out all her money Example sentencesExamples - I turned to fetch milk from the fridge and in the process managed to upend the iron, which promptly headed for the floor and landed with a crash, rendering it somewhat ‘dismantled’ and burning the floor just for good measure.
- When trying to begin an experiment which involves cress seedlings, do not upend the seed packet and tip cress seeds all over the floor.
- I upended the pumpkin and cut the bottom out of it, then put it outside on our backdeck, over the decklight, sparing us the need to use a candle or a flashlight to light him up.
- His ocean survival unit holds 12 people and has a curved underwater fibreglass section that should stop high waves and wind upending the craft, unlike traditional flat-bottomed inflatables.
- This completely upends conventional wisdom about the war, and requires a certain amount of historical amnesia.
- Mr Ebener, along with other horrified spectators, was stunned when Mr Gloystein upended the magnum bottle and proceeded to pour it all over the head of Mr Ottmann.
- Harris suggested that teachers should challenge students, upend their settled ideas, and expose them to worlds far beyond their own experiences.
- But it took the council a week to collect Mr Warner's bin, and he said that when the binmen did finally arrive they simply upended his green bin in to his black bin before taking it off to landfill.
- Open all the little bottles they give you and upend them in the water.
- Almost worse, he says, was the insult of troops upending ashtrays, of throwing his clothes on the floor and stepping on them, and of smashing open suitcases they could easily have opened.
- Frozen disks of meat were dropped onto one rotating chain; upended buns onto another.
- So they upended the futon and assembled the bed in my bedroom.
- He had upended the bottle when he slammed the door.
- Most recently, he teamed up with archaeologists near his Livingston, Montana, home to research a burial site that may upend theories of how humans arrived in America.
Synonyms upturned, upended, bottom up, wrong side up, head over heels, inverted, reversed, overturned, capsized, upset, flipped - 1.1no object (of a swimming duck or other waterbird) submerge the head and foreparts in order to feed, so that the tail is raised in the air.
Synonyms set upright, place vertical, set up, put up, stand, stand up, stand on end
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