upended
Adjective Satellite
Meaning
turned up on end
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Examples
After months of delays, his chances of obtaining a visa were upended when the embassy suspended its operations due to the virus outbreak.
After a burst of anger during a family dinner, Salvador Garcia spoke to his son, hoping to make some sense of a world that has been upended.
Along with the rest of the world, athletes have had their careers upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
After eluding one tackler, he was upended just before he reached the goal line, throwing his hands up in mock frustration after being stopped at the 1-yard line.
As the coronavirus pandemic has upended American life as we know it, many of us at home have relied on Amazon as a lifeline.
And yet farmers are destroying produce, dumping milk and culling livestock because the pandemic has upended supply chains, making it impossible for many to get crops to market.