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upend

/uhp-end/US // ʌpˈɛnd //UK // (ʌpˈɛnd) //

颠覆,颠倒,倒立,颠扑不破

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to set on end, as a barrel or ship.
    • : to affect drastically or radically, as tastes, opinions, reputations, or systems.
    • : to defeat in competition, as in boxing or business.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become upended.
    • : to place the body back-end up, as a dabbling duck.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inoverthrow
Forms: upended
as inupset
Forms: upended
as inunhorse
Forms: upended

Examples

  • Fortune recently spoke with cofounders Shipman and Renahan to learn more about their insights and predictions for their business and the plant-based food industry after a year in which grocery shopping was completely upended.

  • Even as the pandemic upends the restaurant world, this reform can and must happen.

  • It also shows that the same disruptive sentiments that upended American politics in recent years are now taking aim at the financial system.

  • It’s a huge understatement to say the pandemic upended everything.

  • The disease’s terrifying ability to so swiftly upend the rhythms and rituals of everyday life only added to the war’s larger social disruptions.

  • It is a revolutionary story, which threatens to upend the world as we know it.

  • It would inject a threat of accountability into power, and upend the impunity wartime leaders had operated under for years.

  • In August, Sen. Ted Cruz linked the need to upend the IRS to its abuse of power.

  • [S]omething larger is going on here, which could upend everything and produce unintended consequences.

  • The one event that could upend that is an encore from a passive, disengaged Obama.

  • It is safe, as we will never meet again, and all ideas of justice will upend in the coming cataclysm.

  • The log plunges after him, holding him down and back till he drowns; and his whereabouts are revealed by the upend of the tree.