upend
/ʌpˈɛnd
/verb [with object]
1Set or turn (something) on its end or upside down: she upended a can of soup over the portions (as adjective upended) an upended box...
- 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.
- This completely upends conventional wisdom about the war, and requires a certain amount of historical amnesia.
- 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.
1.1 [no 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
Rhymes
- virtual image
- virtualise
- virtualism
- virtualist
- virtuality
- virtualization
- virtualize
- virtualizer
- virtually
- virtual machine
- virtual memory
- virtual office
- virtual private network
- virtual reality
- virtual representation
- virtual storage
- virtual temperature
- virtual work
- virtucrat
- virtue
- virtuecrat
- virtued
- virtue ethics
- virtuefy
- virtueless