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

  1. ‘But it took the council a week to collect Mr Warner's bin
  2. 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.’
  3. ‘This completely upends conventional wisdom about the war
  4. and requires a certain amount of historical amnesia.’
  5. ‘Mr Ebener
  6. along with other horrified spectators
  7. was stunned when Mr Gloystein upended the magnum bottle and proceeded to pour it all over the head of Mr Ottmann.’
  8. ‘Harris suggested that teachers should challenge students
  9. upend their settled ideas
  10. and expose them to worlds far beyond their own experiences.’
  11. ‘So they upended the futon and assembled the bed in my bedroom.’
  12. ‘When trying to begin an experiment which involves cress seedlings
  13. do not upend the seed packet and tip cress seeds all over the floor.’
  14. ‘Frozen disks of meat were dropped onto one rotating chain; upended buns onto another.’
  15. ‘His ocean survival unit holds 12 people and has a curved underwater fibreglass section that should stop high waves and wind upending the craft
  16. unlike traditional flat-bottomed inflatables.’
  17. ‘He had upended the bottle when he slammed the door.’
  18. ‘Most recently
  19. he teamed up with archaeologists near his Livingston
  20. Montana
  21. home to research a burial site that may upend theories of how humans arrived in America.’
  22. ‘I upended the pumpkin and cut the bottom out of it
  23. then put it outside on our backdeck
  24. over the decklight
  25. sparing us the need to use a candle or a flashlight to light him up.’
  26. ‘I turned to fetch milk from the fridge and in the process managed to upend the iron
  27. which promptly headed for the floor and landed with a crash
  28. rendering it somewhat ‘dismantled’ and burning the floor just for good measure.’
  29. ‘Open all the little bottles they give you and upend them in the water.’
  30. ‘Almost worse
  31. he says
  32. was the insult of troops upending ashtrays
  33. of throwing his clothes on the floor and stepping on them
  34. and of smashing open suitcases they could easily have opened.’