UPEND


Meaning of UPEND in English

[up.end] vt (1823) 1: to set or stand on end; also: overturn 1

2. a: to affect to the point of being upset or flurried "a ... literary shocker, designed to ~ the credulous matrons --Wolcott Gibbs" b: defeat, beat ~ vi: to rise on an end

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