{
  "upend":{
    "antonyms":[
      "lose (to)"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": defeat , beat":[],
      ": to affect to the point of being upset or flurried":[
        "a \u2026 literary shocker, designed to upend the credulous matrons",
        "\u2014 Wolcott Gibbs"
      ],
      ": to rise on an end":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He upended the bicycle to fix its flat tire.",
      "I upended the bucket to use as a stool.",
      "The security inspector upended my bag and dumped everything out.",
      "A giant wave upended the surfers.",
      "The midfielder was upended before he got the ball.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There are potential pitfalls to any piece of drug pricing legislation, which could in fact upend the cost savings calculations. \u2014 Joshua Cohen, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "But the grinding war in Ukraine is increasing pressure on China to disavow Putin\u2019s aggression or face international condemnation that could upend its own strategies in challenging the U.S. for global superiority. \u2014 Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "To further combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the White House on Wednesday unveiled a new roadmap focused on moving the nation to a new stage of the pandemic in which the virus does not upend Americans' lives, CNN reports. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Republicans need to flip one seat in the Senate and five seats in the House of Representatives to seize control from Democrats and upend the power dynamic in Washington. \u2014 Susan Page, USA TODAY , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "San Francisco\u2019s top law enforcement officials are locked in a standoff that is rooted in a police brutality case and threatens to upend police accountability in the city. \u2014 Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 Feb. 2022",
      "And the Little Devils now have company, the Yaxunah Amazonas, who also play shoeless and in traditional attire and have helped upend sports culture in the Yucat\u00e1n. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "The upstart series of events, backed by Saudi Arabia\u2019s sovereign-wealth fund, has threatened to upend professional golf by trying to lure some of the game\u2019s biggest stars with lucrative prizes and appearance fees. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
      "Most European Union leaders were relieved after French President Emmanuel Macron won reelection Sunday over far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, who threatened to upend that solidarity. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1823, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u0259p-\u02c8end"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "beat",
      "best",
      "conquer",
      "defeat",
      "dispatch",
      "do down",
      "get",
      "get around",
      "lick",
      "master",
      "overbear",
      "overcome",
      "overmatch",
      "prevail (over)",
      "skunk",
      "stop",
      "subdue",
      "surmount",
      "take",
      "trim",
      "triumph (over)",
      "win (against)",
      "worst"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071245",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  }
}