upset

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to turn or tip over; capsize.
2. v. To disturb the functioning, order, or course of: Protesters upset the meeting by chanting and shouting.
3. v. To distress or perturb mentally or emotionally: The bad news upset me.
4. v. To overthrow; overturn: upset a will. See Synonyms at overthrow.
5. v. To defeat unexpectedly (an opponent favored to win).
6. v. To make (a heated metal bolt, for example) shorter and thicker by hammering on the end.
7. v. To become overturned; capsize.
8. v. To become disturbed.
9. n. The act of upsetting or the condition of being upset.
10. n. A disturbance, disorder, or state of agitation.
11. n. A game or contest in which the favorite is defeated.
12. n. A tool used for upsetting; a swage.
13. n. An upset part or piece.
14. adj. Having been overturned; capsized.
15. adj. Exhibiting signs and symptoms of indigestion: an upset stomach.
16. adj. In a state of emotional or mental distress; distraught: upset parents.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. See the extract.
2. To set or place up.
3. To overturn; overthrow; overset, as a boat or a carriage; hence, figuratively, to throw into confusion; interfere with; spoil: as, to upset one's plans.
4. To put out of the normal state; put in disorder; of persons, to discompose completely; make nervous or irritable; overcome.
5. To shorten and thicken by hammering, as a heated piece of metal set up endwise: said also of the shortening and resetting of the tire of a wheel. Wire ropes are upset by doubling up the ends of the wires after they have been passed through the small end of a conical collar. After upsetting they are welded into a solid mass or soldered together.
6. To be overturned or upset.
7. n. The act of upsetting, overturning, or severely discomposing, or the state of being upset; an overturn: as, the carriage had an upset; the news gave me quite an upset.
8. Set up; fixed; determined.

Wiktionary

1. adj. of a person Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
2. adj. Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
3. n. uncountable Disturbance or disruption.
4. n. countable, sports An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.
5. n. An overturn.
6. n. An upset stomach.
7. n. 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.
8. v. transitive To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
9. v. transitive To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
10. v. transitive To tip or overturn (something).
11. v. transitive To defeat unexpectedly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To set up; to put upright.
2. v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
3. v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
4. v. To overturn, overthrow, or overset
5. v. colloq. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill.
6. v. (Basketwork) To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner.
7. v. To become upset.
8. adj. Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
9. n. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. form metals with a swage
2. n. a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
3. v. disturb the balance or stability of
4. n. the act of disturbing the mind or body
5. n. a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
6. n. an improbable and unexpected victory
7. v. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
8. v. cause to lose one's composure
9. adj. used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
10. adj. mildly physically distressed
11. adj. having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
12. n. an unhappy and worried mental state
13. n. the act of upsetting something
14. v. move deeply
15. adj. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
16. v. defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
17. adj. thrown into a state of disarray or confusion