adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 pointing or facing upwards:
an upturned nose (= that curves upwards at the end) * She looked down at the sea of upturned faces.
2 turned upside down:
She sat on an upturned box. * The children clung to the upturned boat.
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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 upturned is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does upturned appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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