English Dictionary

upset

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʌpsɛt/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 廃用

(transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. / (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). / (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).

日本語の意味

（他動詞）人を怒らせる、不安にさせる、不幸にする。 / （他動詞）物事を混乱させる、中断させる、または悪い状態に変える。 / （他動詞）物をひっくり返す、転覆させる。

His careless remarks upset his sister and left her in tears.

彼の軽率な発言は妹を動揺させ、彼女は涙を流した。

意味（1）

(transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.

I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.

意味（2）

(transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).

Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.

意味（3）

(transitive) To tip or overturn (something).

But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.

意味（4）

(transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.

Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.

The carriage upset when the horse bolted.

意味（6）

(obsolete) To set up; to put upright.

with sail on mast upset

意味（7）

To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

意味（8）

To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

upsets （ present singular third-person ）

upsetting （ participle present ）

upset （ participle past ）

upset （ past ）