[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

upset \upset"\, v. i.
   to become upset.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

upset \up"set`\, a.
   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.
   1913 webster

         after a solemn pause, mr. glossin offered the upset
         price for the lands and barony of ellangowan. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

upset \up"set`\, n.
   the act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an
   overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

upset \upset"\, v. t.
   1. to set up; to put upright. obs. "with sail on mast
      upset." --r. of brunne.
      1913 webster

   2.
      a to thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by
          hammering on the end.
      b to shorten a tire in the process of resetting,
          originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
          1913 webster

   3. to overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a
      carriage; to upset an argument. "determined somehow to
      upset the situation." --mrs. humphry ward.
      1913 webster

   4. to disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves
      of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. colloq.
      1913 webster

   5. 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.
      webster 1913 suppl.

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

upset
     adj 1: afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or
            grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many
            disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's
            leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried
            parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check
            of the sleeping children" syn: disquieted, distressed,
             disturbed, worried
     2: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops
        fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on
        the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything
        so upset" syn: broken, confused, disordered
     3: used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the
        bills' upset victory over the houston oilers" syn: upseta
     4: mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"
     5: having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the
        bottom; "an overturned car"; "the upset pitcher of milk";
        "sat on an upturned bucket" syn: overturned, upturned
     n 1: an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much
          anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset
          she caused me" syn: disturbance, perturbation
     2: the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness
        could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was
        unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way
        of living" syn: derangement, overthrow
     3: condition in which there is a disturbance of normal
        functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the
        disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to
        time" syn: disorder
     4: a tool used to thicken or spread the end of a bar or a
        rivet etc. by forging or hammering or swaging syn: swage
     5: the act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the
        upset of his sled at a high speed" syn: overturn, turnover
     6: an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset
        since david beat goliath" syn: overturn
     v 1: disturb the balance or stability of; "the hostile talks
          upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
     2: cause to lose one's composure syn: discompose, untune,
        disconcert, discomfit
     3: move deeply; "this book upset me"; "a troubling thought"
        syn: disturb, trouble
     4: cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "the
        cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer
        turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer" syn: overturn,
         tip over, turn over, knock over, bowl over, tump
        over
     5: form metals with a swage syn: swage
     6: defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "the foreign team upset
        the local team"
     also: upsetting
see also:
disquieted distressed disturbed worried broken confused 
disordered upseta overturned upturned disturbance 
perturbation derangement overthrow disorder swage 
overturn turnover discompose untune disconcert 
discomfit disturb trouble tip over turn over 
knock over bowl over tump over upsetting 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

694 moby thesaurus words for "upset":
   abash, abashed, abroad, addle, addle the wits, adrift, afflict,
   afflicted, afraid, agitate, agitated, agitation, ail, all up with,
   all-overs, amiss, angry, angst, answer, answer conclusively,
   anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench,
   anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension,
   apprehensive, apprehensiveness, argue down, askew, astray, at sea,
   awry, baffle, bafflement, balk, balking, ball up, balled-up,
   be lost, beat, beat up, beaten, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle,
   befuddlement, belied, bend, beset, bested, bewilder, bewildered,
   bewilderment, blast, bloodless revolution, bluster, bobbery, boil,
   boiling, bother, botheration, bothered, bottom side up,
   bouleversement, brave, brawl, breakdown, breakup, broil, brouhaha,
   bug, bugger up, burden, bustle, cacophony, cankerworm of care,
   capsizal, capsize, capsized, care, careen, cast down, cataclysm,
   catastrophe, chagrin, chagrined, challenge, chaos, chaotic,
   chapfallen, check, checkmate, churn, churn up, circumvent,
   clean slate, clean sweep, cloud, clueless, cockeyed, commotion,
   complete answer, computer revolution, concern, concernment,
   confound, confounded, confounding, confoundment, confront, confuse,
   confused, confusion, confutation, confute, confuted, conquer,
   conquest, contradict, contradiction, contravene, controversion,
   controvert, conturbation, convulse, convulsed, convulsion, counter,
   counteract, countermand, counterrevolution, counterwork, cross,
   crush, crushed, culbute, culbuter, curve, dash, dashed, daze,
   dazzle, debacle, debilitate, deck, defeat, defeated, deflated,
   defy, demolish, demolition, demoralize, demoralized, denial,
   denied, deny, deposal, derange, deranged, derangement, destroy,
   dilemma, disarrange, disarranged, disarrangement, disarray,
   disarticulation, disbalance, discarded, discombobulate,
   discombobulation, discomfit, discomfited, discomfiture, discomfort,
   discomforted, discompose, discomposed, discomposure, disconcert,
   disconcerted, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment,
   discountenance, discredited, discrediting, disequilibrate, dish,
   disharmony, dishevel, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction,
   dislocated, dislodgment, dismay, dismayed, dismiss, dismissed,
   disorder, disordered, disorderliness, disorderly, disorganization,
   disorganize, disorganized, disorient, disorientation, disoriented,
   dispose of, disproportion, disproved, disputed, disquiet,
   disquieted, disquietude, disrupt, disruption, distract, distracted,
   distraught, distress, distressed, disturb, disturbance, disturbed,
   done for, done in, down, downfall, dread, ebullition,
   effective rejoinder, electrify, elude, embarrass, embarrassed,
   embarrassment, embroil, embroilment, enigma, entangle, entropy,
   excite, excited, excitement, exploded, exposed, fall, fallen,
   fanaticism, fear, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverish,
   feverishness, fidgets, fidgety, finish, fix, fixed, flap, floor,
   floored, flummox, flurried, flurry, fluster, flustered, flutter,
   flutteration, fluttered, fog, foil, foiling, foment, fomentation,
   foofaraw, foreboding, forebodingness, founder, frazzle,
   freaked out, frenzy, fret, frighten, frightened, frustrate,
   frustration, fuck up, fuddle, fuddlement, fume, furious, furor,
   furore, fury, fuss, fussed, give concern, go down, guessing,
   gum up, haphazardness, haywire, haze, honeycomb, hors de combat,
   hubbub, hung up, hurly-burly, ill at ease, impugned, in a fix,
   in a jumble, in a maze, in a pickle, in a pother, in a pucker,
   in a scrape, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy,
   in disorder, incapacitate, incoherence, indiscriminateness,
   indispose, inharmonious harmony, inquietude, interfere with,
   invalid, invalidated, invert, inverted, irate, irregularity, jam,
   jar, jitters, jittery, jolt, jumble, jumbled, jumpiness, jumpy,
   keel, keel over, knock down, knock galley-west, knock over,
   knock the chocks, lambasted, lathered, lay up, licked,
   load with care, lost, mad, maelstrom, malaise, maze, mazed, mess,
   mess up, misgiving, misplaced, mist, mix up, moider, moil,
   mortified, mortify, most admired disorder, muddle, muddled,
   muddlement, mystery, negated, negatived, nerviness, nervosity,
   nervous, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nervy,
   neurasthenic, nonplus, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, off the track,
   on the fritz, on the skids, out of countenance, out of gear,
   out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order,
   out of place, out of tune, out of whack, outdone, overanxiety,
   overbalance, overborne, overcome, overexcited, overmaster,
   overmastered, overmatch, overmatched, overpower, overpowered,
   overridden, overset, overthrow, overthrowal, overthrown, overturn,
   overturned, overwhelm, overwhelmed, overwrought, paddle,
   palace revolution, pandemonium, panicked, parry, passion, perplex,
   perplexed, perplexity, perturb, perturbate, perturbation,
   perturbed, pickle, pins and needles, pitchpole, plight, pother,
   predicament, problem, promiscuity, promiscuousness, prostrate,
   prostrated, prostration, psych, psych out, pucker, punctured,
   put off, put out, put to it, put to rout, put to silence, put-out,
   put-upon, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, queasy, racket,
   radical change, rage, raise hell, randomness, rattle, rattled,
   rebut, rebuttal, reduce to silence, reduced to jelly, refutal,
   refutation, refute, refuted, rejected, restless, restlessness,
   reverse, reversed, revolt, revolute, revolution, revolutionary war,
   revolutionize, revulsion, riddle, rile, ripple, rock,
   rock the boat, roil, roily, rout, routed, row, ruckus, ruffle,
   ruffled, ruin, ruined, rummage, rumple, rumpus, sabotage, sap,
   sap the foundations, scare, scared, scattered, scotch, scrape,
   screw up, scuttle, seethe, seething, send flying, settle, settled,
   shake, shake up, shaken, shaken up, shock, shook, shot,
   shot to pieces, shown up, shuffle, shuffled, shut up, sick, sicken,
   silence, silenced, sink, skew, skinned, skinned alive,
   smash all opposition, snarl up, solicitude, somersault, somerset,
   spasm, spike, spill, spoil, spook, squash, squelch, stagger,
   stampeded, stew, stir, stir up, stirred up, stonewall, storminess,
   strain, stricken, striking alteration, stump, subversion, subvert,
   suffer, surmount, surprise, suspense, sweat, sweeping change,
   swirl, swivet, tabula rasa, technological revolution,
   tempestuousness, tension, thrash, thrashing, throw, throw down,
   throw into confusion, throw off balance, throw over, thwart,
   thwarting, tip over, tizzy, to-do, topple, topple over, toppled,
   topsy-turvify, topsy-turvy, total change, transilience,
   trepidation, trepidity, trimmed, trip, trip up, triumph,
   triumph over, trouble, troubled, troublous, trounced, tumble,
   tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbid, turbidity,
   turbulence, turbulent, turmoil, turn, turn a somersault, turn over,
   turn topsy-turvy, turn turtle, turn upside down, turned around,
   turnover, twitter, unassuredness, unbalance, unbrace,
   uncomfortable, undermine, undermining, undo, undone, unease,
   uneasiness, uneasy, unglued, unhinge, unhorsing, unman, unmanned,
   unnerve, unnerved, unpeaceful, unplacement, unquiet, unquietness,
   unrest, unsaddling, unseating, unsettle, unsettled, unsettlement,
   unstring, unstrung, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upend, upheaval,
   uproar, upset the boat, upsetting, upside down, upturn, vanquish,
   vexation, victory, violent change, weaken, whelmed, whip, whip up,
   whipped, whisk, wildness, without a clue, work up, worried, worry,
   worst, worsted, zeal, zealousness

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