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Meaning of upsets

- To set up; to put upright.
- To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
- To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
- To become upset.
- 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.
- The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

Crossword clue for upsets

- Against-the-odds win
- Annoy
- Annoyed
- Capsize
- Cause a disturbance
- Cause distress to
- Clean up
- Destabilise
- Disconcerted
- Disorganised set-up
- Distraught
- Distress
- Distressed
- Disturb
- Disturb the set-up
- Disturbed by unexpected match outcome
- Made anxious by an exclusion from peanuts mix
- make nervous
- Offend
- Out of sorts
- Overturn
- Overturned
- Queasiness
- Reversal of form
- Reversing set-up achieving unexpected result
- Ruin plans, ... the applecart
- Shaken
- Shaken set-up
- Shock result
- Spill
- Spill to overturn surprise victory
- surprise result
- Surprise victory
- Troubled
- Turn-up for the books
- Unanticipated turn of events
- Annoys
- Flusters
- intrusions
- Knocks over
- Overturns
- Spills produce shock results
- Tips over
- Unexpected defeats