to upturn

Examples

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• In the background, GONZO is upturning a sofa to retrieve his stash from the lining.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Two thousand feet down, in the midst of the barren sea floor the Johnson Sea Link submarine finds something that seems to upturn the laws of physics a pond of water, with ripples on its surface.

  Apartment Zero (1989)

• Should we be astonished to find this madman cheating to win, and upturning the table if he seems to be losing?

  Blog text (20)

• It's a large base of a oak tree, a massive oak tree, but they've taken it and upturned it so the roots reach up to the sky.

• In that moment, looking at her left eye and its long upturning lashes, her nose and lips, and the curve of her chin, he could have told her they must not do this; he was a waste of her time, her fertility.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The old: It's still a World War II shooter, so Gearbox isn't exactly upturning the gaming industry's checkers board here.

  Blog text (20)

• The real issue, IMHO, is that the book upturns the current paradigm of the nature of physical reality and is not written by a "scientist"; indeed, the science standards are patchy. However, the book opens valid and interesting doors that science papers written in incomprehensible science jargon do not.

  Blog text (5)

• At low tide, accompanied by an entourage of the mwadhini's brothers, the shell collector waded with Tumaini out onto the reef and began to upturn rocks and probe into the sand beneath to try to extract a cone.

  Fiction book (2001)

• He continued to search, upturning cushions and clawing through clutter—last summer's newspapers, rose books, tomato books, receipts, recipes.

  Fiction book (1992)

• He carefully upturned the vase so that it wouldn't collect dust.

Synonyms

T

to tip

vsto upturn

148 1.8

To move something so it leans or falls to one side

involves only a tilt or slight fall rather than placing the bottom fully upward

F

to flip over

vsto upturn

41 2.5

Turn something so the side that was up is now down

focuses on making the bottom become the top rather than reversing the top

T

to turn over

vsto upturn

31 2.6

Flip something so the other side faces up

is specifically making the bottom become the top rather than any other side

O

to overturn

vsto upturn

30 4.1

Make something flip so it is upside down or on its side

means putting the bottom on top rather than simply making it upside down or sideways

U

to upend

vsto upturn

23 5.5

Turn something so one end points up

focuses on making the bottom face upward rather than creating an upright end

T

to turn turtle

vsto upturn

8.4

To flip over so the bottom becomes the top, often about boats or cars

is the same move but applies to all objects not just boats

How Inverted

to invert

28 4.8

to upturn

1 4.5

flip

31 2.6

to tip

148 1.8

tilt

12 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology