Upended

verb

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo end up; to set on end.

2.verbTo tip or turn over.

"When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both."

3.verbTo destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.

"The scientific evidence upended the popular myth."

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