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upended

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

颠覆了,颠覆性的,颠倒了,颠覆的

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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 intopsy-turvy
as inoverthrow
as inreverse
as intip
as inupset
as inunhorse

Examples

  • He did, however, say that “a lot of faculty are overreacting these days,” requiring students, for instance, to take tests only in highly controlled areas even though the pandemic has upended their life.

  • So while everyone obviously understands the show’s desire to focus on the music, it was still jarring to see the mostly maskless indoor ceremony, with only a few references to the pandemic that has upended everyone’s lives.

  • ESPN announces hundreds of layoffs as pandemic, cord-cutting upend sports television

  • Barton said McDaniel’s claim was a “gut punch” given how physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted her staff of seven was after administering an election upended by the coronavirus pandemic and new statewide voting requirements.

  • They are navigating jobs upended by a pandemic, the economic downturn, social unrest, wildfires, plummeting requests for rides and surging demands for delivery.

  • When Herzog appeared in 1964, it upended our ideas about what novels could accomplish.

  • It upended the normal social order, but over the course of the Summer Project, the new social order held.

  • Last week, outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a war hawk, was upended in a surprise primary loss.

  • Then, in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court upended two centuries of precedent.

  • He was the electric young upstart who upended her inevitable path to the White House in Iowa.

  • Father Paul chose a block of wood from the pile beside the stove, upended it, and seated himself.

  • She upended herself again, and the chair, altho it wabbled distractingly, did not cast her off.

  • He took off his coat, hung it on the back of a chair, upended his hat and sat down with a tired smile.

  • With one stroke of the pick I upended several more yellow bars.

  • Too high for me to reach, I presently found a large box which I upended cautiously until it lay beneath the port.