upsetverb [ T ]
uk/ʌpˈset/us/ʌpˈset/present participle upsetting, past tense and past participle upsetupset verb [ T ] (WORRY)
B2 to make someone worried, unhappy, or angry:
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- I didn't mean to upset her - it was just a bit of fun.
- I hadn't realized I'd upset him but apparently he was mortally offended.
- Sue always manages to upset somebody when we go out - she's a real liability.
- Not content with having upset my parents, he then insulted my sister!
- You mustn't upset your sister with any more nonsense about ghosts.
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Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- burn
- haunt
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- take sb aback
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
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upset verb [ T ] (CHANGE)
to change the usual or expected state or order of something, especially in a way that stops it from happening or working:
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Upsetting and destabilizing
- bring
- bring sb down
- delegitimize
- destabilize
- dislocate
- disrupt
- knock/throw sb for a loop idiom
- loop
- make waves idiom
- put the skids under sth idiom
- rock
- rock the boat idiom
- scupper
- stir
- turn sth upside down idiom
- undercut
- unsettling
- upside down
- wave
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upset verb [ T ] (KNOCK)
to push or knock something out of its usual position, usually by accident, especially causing it to fall:
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Pushing and shoving
- barge
- bring
- bring sb down
- bundle
- dig
- force
- frogmarch
- heave
- jostle
- nudge
- propel
- push
- push off
- push sb/sth over
- ram
- repel
- scrum
- shove
- stab
- wheel
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upset verb [ T ] (MAKE SICK)
to make someone feel slightly sick:
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Being & falling ill
- ail
- be green around the gills idiom
- be laid up idiom
- be out of sorts idiom
- break
- bring
- burned out
- burnt out
- catch your death of cold idiom
- come down with sth
- declension
- food
- KO
- pick sth up
- pneumonia
- prone
- relapse
- shivery
- sicken
- strike
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Idiom(s)
upsetadjective
uk/ʌpˈset/us/ʌpˈset/upset adjective (WORRIED)
A2 [ after verb ] worried, unhappy, or angry:
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- He was dreadfully upset.
- Don't let her get you all upset.
- Of course you're upset - it's only natural.
- He was in tears and obviously very upset.
- She's terribly upset because her father passed away last week.
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- moody
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- wretched
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upset adjective (ILL)
B2 informal If you have an upset stomach you feel slightly ill, especially because of something you have eaten or drunk:
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Digestive disorders
- achalasia
- acid reflux
- amebic dysentery
- amoebic dysentery
- bellyache
- bilious
- bloat
- bowel incontinence
- cholera
- dyspeptic
- furred
- gastritis
- heartburn
- ileitis
- incontinence
- irritable bowel syndrome
- merycism
- mesenteric ischaemia
- mesenteric panniculitis
- occlusion
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upsetnoun
uk/ˈʌp.set/us/ˈʌp.set/upset noun (CHANGE)
[ U ] confusion and problems:
[ C ] an occasion when someone beats the team or player that was expected to win:
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Upsetting and destabilizing
- bring
- bring sb down
- delegitimize
- destabilize
- dislocate
- disrupt
- knock/throw sb for a loop idiom
- loop
- make waves idiom
- put the skids under sth idiom
- rock
- rock the boat idiom
- scupper
- stir
- turn sth upside down idiom
- undercut
- unsettling
- upside down
- wave
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upset noun (ILLNESS)
[ C ] informal a slight illness of the stomach:
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Disease & illness - general words
- autoimmune disease
- bilharzia
- bluetongue
- bout
- CFS
- CGD
- complaint
- dose
- dreaded lurgy
- endemic
- industrial disease
- lay
- life-threatening
- lurgy
- morbidity
- pandemic
- pinkeye
- strangulated
- syndrome
- wasting disease
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