upset

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of UPSET

an act or instance of the order of things being disturbed <the move to a new town is just the latest in a series of upsets for my family over the last year>

Synonyms derangement, dislocation, disruption, disturbance

Related Words convulsion, revolution, unsettledness, unsettlement, upheaval

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