verb
- Disturb the balance or stability of.
- usage: "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
- synonyms: upset
- Cause to lose one's composure.
- synonyms: upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
- Move deeply.
- usage: "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
- Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position.
- usage: "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
- Form metals with a swage.
- Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly.
- usage: "The foreign team upset the local team"
- synonyms: upset
adjective
- Causing an emotional disturbance.
- usage: "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
- synonyms: disconcerting
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