"turn upside down" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: turns upside down [present, singular, third-person], turning upside down [participle, present], turned upside down [participle, past], turned upside down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=turn upside down}} turn upside down (third-person singular simple present turns upside down, present participle turning upside down, simple past and past participle turned upside down)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To flip over; to rotate top to bottom. Tags: intransitive, transitive Synonyms: flip over, turn over Translations (to rotate top to bottom): جَعَلَ عَالِيَ الشَّيْءِ سَافِلَهُ (jaʕala ʕāliya š-šayʔi sāfilahu) (Arabic), قَلَبَ (qalaba) (Arabic), كَفَأَ (kafaʔa) (Arabic), renverser (French), envorcar (Galician), voltear (Galician), umdrehen (German), 뒤집어엎다 (dwijibeo'eopda) (Korean), 엎다 (eopda) (Korean), invertō (Latin), ukausa (Ngazidja Comorian), dar la vuelta (Spanish), girar (Spanish), voltear (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-turn_upside_down-en-verb-ZCTGkZo~ Disambiguation of 'to rotate top to bottom': 99 1
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) To thoroughly examine. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-turn_upside_down-en-verb-mpNTobMs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: turn upside-down

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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
      "word": "envorcar"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
      "word": "voltear"
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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
      "word": "뒤집어엎다"
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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
      "word": "invertō"
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      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
      "word": "ukausa"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
      "word": "dar la vuelta"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
      "word": "girar"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to rotate top to bottom",
      "word": "voltear"
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  "word": "turn upside down"
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