upend
/ʌpˈɛnd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A hamlet in Kirtling parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL7058).
Example Sentences
- "When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both."
- "upend the box and empty the contents"
- "Venezuela, who introduced the exciting 17-year-old Samuel Sosa late on, pressed forward and eventually carved out a golden opportunity to level. Jake Clarke-Salter, the Chelsea defender, upended Peñaranda inside the box and after consulting the threesome of video officials inside the Suwon World Cup stadium, the referee, Bjorn Kuipers, pointed to the spot."
- "The scientific evidence upended the popular myth."
- "James Meredith's forced admission was a milestone in upending the old order in America's most segregated state, a kind of race relations ground zero."
- "What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq."
Etymology
Etymology tree English up- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos Proto-Germanic *andijaz Proto-West Germanic *andī Old English ende Middle English ende English end English upend From up- + end.
Usage
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Derived Forms
upendable
upender