Dictionary entry
Up-end
Pronunciation: /ʌpˈɛnd/
Pronunciation
/ʌpˈɛnd/
Myanmar Meaning
အစွန်းကို ထောင်၍ ထားသည်။
Definition
up-end /ʌp'end / v ေျပာင္းျပန္လွန္သည္။ ကြၽမ္းျပန္သြားသည္။ I up-ended the crate and sat on it. ❍ ( fig ) He was up-ended (ie knocked over) as he ran towards the goal.
Examples
- ‘But it took the council a week to collect Mr Warner's bin
- and he said that when the binmen did finally arrive they simply upended his green bin in to his black bin before taking it off to landfill.’
- ‘This completely upends conventional wisdom about the war
- and requires a certain amount of historical amnesia.’
- ‘Mr Ebener
- along with other horrified spectators
- was stunned when Mr Gloystein upended the magnum bottle and proceeded to pour it all over the head of Mr Ottmann.’
- ‘Harris suggested that teachers should challenge students
- upend their settled ideas
- and expose them to worlds far beyond their own experiences.’
- ‘So they upended the futon and assembled the bed in my bedroom.’
- ‘When trying to begin an experiment which involves cress seedlings
- do not upend the seed packet and tip cress seeds all over the floor.’
- ‘Frozen disks of meat were dropped onto one rotating chain; upended buns onto another.’
- ‘His ocean survival unit holds 12 people and has a curved underwater fibreglass section that should stop high waves and wind upending the craft
- unlike traditional flat-bottomed inflatables.’
- ‘He had upended the bottle when he slammed the door.’
- ‘Most recently
- he teamed up with archaeologists near his Livingston
- Montana
- home to research a burial site that may upend theories of how humans arrived in America.’
- ‘I upended the pumpkin and cut the bottom out of it
- then put it outside on our backdeck
- over the decklight
- sparing us the need to use a candle or a flashlight to light him up.’
- ‘I turned to fetch milk from the fridge and in the process managed to upend the iron
- which promptly headed for the floor and landed with a crash
- rendering it somewhat ‘dismantled’ and burning the floor just for good measure.’
- ‘Open all the little bottles they give you and upend them in the water.’
- ‘Almost worse
- he says
- was the insult of troops upending ashtrays
- of throwing his clothes on the floor and stepping on them
- and of smashing open suitcases they could easily have opened.’