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up-end

up-end verb: to turn (something) upside down, to invert (something).

Verb

up-end (third-person singular simple present up-ends, present participle up-ending, simple past and past participle up-ended)

  1. To turn (something) upside down, to invert (something).
    • We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses.1981, Horst Ruthrof, The Reader's Construction of Narrative, →ISBN, page 167
    • Take a long tube full of mercury and up-end it with its open end in a pool of mercury, and, Torricelli found, some but not all of the mercury flows out of the tube2001, Jonathan Francis Bennett, “Chapter 3: Descarte's Physics”, in Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, →ISBN, page 58

Forms of up-end

third-person singular presentup-ends
present participleup-ending
past participleup-ended
pastup-ended

Questions about up-end

What does up-end mean?
Up-end means to turn (something) upside down, to invert (something).
What part of speech is up-end?
Up-end is a verb.
What is the past tense of up-end?
The past tense of up-end is up-ended.

Words near up-end in the dictionary

  1. up-dated
  2. up-dates
  3. up-dating
  4. up-do
  5. up-dos
  6. up-end
  7. up-ended
  8. up-ending
  9. up-ends
  10. up-front
  11. up-front money

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