UPENDS Synonyms: 122 Similar and Opposite Words

upends

verb

present tense third-person singular of upend

as in overcomes

to achieve a victory over the team won the division play-offs, but was upended in the final championship game

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as in erects

to fix in an upright position we had to upend the sofa in order to fit it into the elevator

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Recent Examples of upends Ruling upends August elections At the center of the controversy is an ambiguous ruling from the Missouri Supreme Court last month that left local election officials scrambling. —

Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026 Her stunning debut memoir is about how trauma upends narrative structures, and the struggle to write about it anyway despite its unwieldiness. —

Literary Hub, 11 June 2026 Based on the bestselling novel by Bart Baker, Honeymoon with Harry follows a rough-around-the-edges man (Gyllenhaal) who ends up sharing an unwanted journey with his fiancée’s prickly, overprotective father (Costner) after a life-altering turn upends their plans. —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 June 2026 Yuen, cast as the untrained newcomer who upends the protagonist’s world, provides the catalyst that drives the film toward its conclusion. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 May 2026 But when an unexpected pregnancy upends their fragile dynamic, Caroline is pushed out of the circle triggering a fallout that unearths secrets and sends shockwaves through the entire town. —

Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 May 2026 Named by her new owner, Silvia after a Mexican pop star whose 1980s hits ricochet from a rickety TV, Yuri upends Silvia’s solitary existence on a windswept island off the southern coast of Chile, setting the protagonist on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront childhood traumas. —

Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026 The new analysis upends previous assumptions. —

Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 20 May 2026 But the study upends prior results that indicated the test did more harm than good, leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. —

O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 18 May 2026

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These families show that love overcomes differences.

— Geoffrey Greif, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2026
As the realization that nothing—or no one—will be enough overcomes the final bridge, a flurry of drums gallop in and the track explodes into fireworks as Rodrigo screams her guts out.

— Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, 22 May 2026