Usually means: Turn upside down or overturn.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. upend: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. upend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. upend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. upend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. upend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Upend, upend: Wordnik
  7. upend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. upend: Wiktionary
  9. upend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. upend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. upend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. upend: Dictionary.com
  13. upend (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Upend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Upend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. upend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. upend: Rhymezone
  18. Upend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. upend: Free Dictionary
  20. upend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. upend: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. upend: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. upend: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To end up; to set on end.
verb:  To tip or turn over.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To affect or upset drastically.
noun:  A hamlet in Kirtling parish, East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL7058).

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