verb, adjective, noun
verb (upsetting, upset, upset)
1 to make sb/yourself feel unhappy, anxious or annoyed
SYNDISTRESS:
[VN] This decision is likely to upset a lot of people. * Try not to let him upset you. * Don't upset yourself about it-let's just forget it ever happened. * [VNthat] It upset him that nobody had bothered to tell him about it. * [VNtoinf] It upsets me to think of her all alone in that big house.
2 [VN] to make a plan, situation, etc. go wrong:
He arrived an hour late and upset all our arrangements.
3 [VN] ~ sb's stomach to make sb feel sick after they have eaten or drunk sth
4 [VN] to make sth fall over by hitting it accidentally:
She stood up suddenly, upsetting a glass of wine.
IDIOMS
upset the apple cart to cause problems for sb or spoil their plans, arrangements, etc.
Part of speech: adjective
1 [notbeforenoun] ~ (about sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for upset is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is upset a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, upset is tagged as adjective.
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