How to pronounce “upset”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
• (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
• [Noun]
• (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
• (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
• (automobile insurance) An overturn.
• An upset stomach.
• (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
• (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
• (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
• (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
• (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
• (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
• (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
• (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
• To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
• (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).

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