upending in English

verb

1

set or turn (something) on its end or upside down.

Kitty upended her purse, dumping out all her money

synonyms: overturn, invert, turn over, turn upside down, capsize, flip, tip, keel over, turn turtle, trip, take the legs out from under

verb

overturn, invert, turn over, turn upside down, capsize, flip, tip, keel over, turn turtle, trip, take the legs out from under

Use "upending" in a sentence

1. Deep, profound, moving, unshakeable, upending ... but simple.

2. Steve Rose in The Guardian criticized the film for failing to explore the material's potential for "patriarchy-upending subversion".

3. The “Aeneid” is suffused with a fascinating, upending sense that most of what goes gravely wrong on earth isn’t imputable to human agency

4. A unique ensemble for the classical guitar, upending traditional notions of repertoire with forays into twelve-tone, atonal, Aleatoric, prepared, electro-acoustic, and minimalist styles

5. Recent Examples on the Web Ocasio-Cortez’s story of Bartender-turned-congresswoman after upending an incumbent Democrat in a safely blue New York district is well documented

6. The British had suffered millions of casualties and liquidated assets at an alarming rate, which led to debt accumulation, upending of capital markets and manpower deficiencies in the staffing of far-flung imperial posts in Asia and the African colonies.