"up-end" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "up-ends",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "up-ending",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "up-ended",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "up-ended",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "up-end (third-person singular simple present up-ends, present participle up-ending, simple past and past participle up-ended)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, Horst Ruthrof, The Reader's Construction of Narrative, page 167",
          "text": "We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jonathan Francis Bennett, “Chapter 3: Descarte's Physics”, in Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, page 58",
          "text": "Take a long tube full of mercury and up-end it with its open end in a pool of mercury, and, Torricelli found, some but not all of the mercury flows out of the tube",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn (something) upside down, to invert (something)."
      ],
      "id": "en-up-end-en-verb-iV~KL409",
      "links": [
        [
          "upside down",
          "upside down"
        ],
        [
          "invert",
          "invert"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "end up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up-end"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "up-ends",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "up-ending",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "up-ended",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "up-ended",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "up-end (third-person singular simple present up-ends, present participle up-ending, simple past and past participle up-ended)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "end up"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, Horst Ruthrof, The Reader's Construction of Narrative, page 167",
          "text": "We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jonathan Francis Bennett, “Chapter 3: Descarte's Physics”, in Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, page 58",
          "text": "Take a long tube full of mercury and up-end it with its open end in a pool of mercury, and, Torricelli found, some but not all of the mercury flows out of the tube",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections, 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn (something) upside down, to invert (something)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "upside down",
          "upside down"
        ],
        [
          "invert",
          "invert"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up-end"
}