"up-end" meaning in All languages combined

See up-end on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: up-ends [present, singular, third-person], up-ending [participle, present], up-ended [participle, past], up-ended [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} up-end (third-person singular simple present up-ends, present participle up-ending, simple past and past participle up-ended)
  1. To turn (something) upside down, to invert (something). Related terms: end up
    Sense id: en-up-end-en-verb-iV~KL409 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "2001, Jonathan Francis Bennett, “Chapter 3: Descarte's Physics”, in Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, →ISBN, page 58:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections, →ISBN, page 55:",
          "text": "She turned on all the lights, swung the closed suitcase up to the table, shoved the table against the wall, up-ended the suitcase so that its leather side presented a smooth surface, and propped a firm sheet of white cardboar against the inpromptu rack.",
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        {
          "word": "end up"
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