n. an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"

n. 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"

n. the act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"

n. 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"

n. an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"

v. defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team"

v. form metals with a swage

v. disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"

v. move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"

v. cause to lose one's composure

v. 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"

adj. used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win; "the Bills' upset victory over the Houston Oilers"

adj. mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"

adj. 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"

adj. 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"

adj. 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"

n. a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

n. information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take"

n. a disturbance of the peace or of public order

n. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)

n. an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

n. an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me"

n. an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble"

n. an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

n. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

n. an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

n. 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"

v. make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted"

v. turn inside out or upside down

v. cause to lose one's composure

v. change the arrangement or position of

v. take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't bother, please"

v. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."

v. annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"

v. disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me"

v. worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now"

v. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

v. exasperate or irritate

v. weight down with a load

v. fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"

v. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"

v. feel grief; eat one's heart out

v. cause to feel sorrow; "his behavior grieves his mother"

v. disturb the composure of

v. tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"

v. move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"

v. change the arrangement or position of

v. cause to feel sorrow; "his behavior grieves his mother"

v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

v. shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"

v. overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!"

v. walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room"

v. shake and cause to make a rattling noise

v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"

v. cause to topple or tumble by pushing

adj. deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief"

adj. marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace"

adj. having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion; "the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand"; "looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted"- G.B.Shaw

adj. deprived of courage and strength; "the steeplejack, exhausted and unnerved, couldn't hold on to his dangerous perch much longer"

v. to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"

v. deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room"

adj. made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"

adj. characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"

adj. without warning or announcement; "they arrived unannounced"; "a totally unheralded telegram that his daughter...died last night"- M.A.D.Howe

adj. not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue"

adj. so unexpected as to have not been imagined; "an unhoped-for piece of luck"; "an unthought advantage"; "an unthought-of place to find the key"

adj. not prepared or ready for

adj. grievously affected especially by disease

adj. affected by ague

adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

adj. experiencing motion sickness

adj. in poor health or in pain: "I feel bad"

adj. confined to bed (by illness)

adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress

adj. suffering from or prone to bronchitis

adj. afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"

adj. returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"

adj. experiencing delirium

adj. suffering from diabetes

adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"

adj. suffering from dyspepsia

adj. weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"

adj. having or affected by a fever

adj. suffering from gout

adj. put out of action (by illness)

adj. ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold"

adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

adj. afflicted with scrofula

adj. inclined to sneeze

adj. suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"

adj. constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis"

adj. not healed; "an unhealed wound"

adj. lacking a visible order or organization

adj. thrown together in a disorderly fashion; "a scrambled plan of action"

adj. thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence; "price programs became unstuck because little grain was available"

adj. being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake"

adj. turned inside out and resewn; "the reversed collar looked as good as new"

adj. turned in a circle around an axis

adj. with the inside surface on the outside

adj. troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"

adj. burdened by cares; "all ye that labor and are heavy-laden"-Matt.11:28

adj. made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance; "his face was clouded with unhappiness"

adj. facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"

adj. marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"

adj. tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis

adj. (often followed by `with' or used in combination) troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers; "waters infested with sharks"; "shark-infested waters"; "the locust-overrun countryside"; "drug-plagued streets"

adj. having a serious nonfinancial problem; "in trouble with the police"

adj. suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"; "the victim was in a bad way and needed immediate attention"

adj. engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists"

adj. full of trouble; "these are troublous times"

v. make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear"