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UPENDING

Dictionary entry overview: What does upending mean?

• UPENDING (noun)
The noun UPENDING has 1 sense:

1. turning upside down; setting on end

Familiarity information: UPENDING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UPENDING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Turning upside down; setting on end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

upending; inversion

Hypernyms ("upending" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "upending"):

overturn; turnover; upset (the act of upsetting something)

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