UPENDS Synonyms: 122 Similar and Opposite Words

upends

verb

Definition of upends next

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 For anyone who has only ever experienced rain as something that gradually builds — a few drops, then more, then a steady fall — a wall of rain upends that expectation entirely. —

Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026 Partway through the story, the reader learns something that upends our understanding of what’s going on. —

Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026 Beyond football, a DOJ probe that upends how the NFL and streamers do business could bleed into other sports, changing how exclusive streaming and bundling work in the US. —

Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2026 The news upends everything, and Charlie is left struggling to figure out how to go forward, how to try to forget, how — or whether — to adjust his image of his beautiful, perfect fiancee. —

Moira MacDonald, Twin Cities, 4 Apr. 2026 Mansfield upends Mansfield Legacy Nick Ruiz drove in 3 runs to lead Mansfield to a 9-4 win over Mansfield Legacy in a District 3-6A contest on Tuesday night at Mansfield High School. —

Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026 This shift upends the post-World War II norm of natural increase driving the state's growth, said Matt Kinghorn, senior demographer at the IBRC. —

Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026 Kenya’s flower industry is losing millions of dollars every month as the conflict in the Middle East upends global commerce. —

Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026 Based on the 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. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026

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This overcomes a key limitation in the field, and could help improve technologies that use sunlight to produce clean fuels and chemicals.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
Leo consistently overcomes challenges such as low light, rapid movement, and split second moments to produce sharp, compelling images.

— Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026