up-end

See also: upend

English

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).
   • 1981, Horst Ruthrof, The Reader's Construction of Narrative‎^[1], →ISBN, page 167:

     We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses.

   • 2001, Jonathan Francis Bennett, “Chapter 3: Descarte's Physics”, in Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume‎^[2], →ISBN, page 58:

     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

   • 2007, Bonnie Kime Scott, Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections, →ISBN, page 55:

     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.

See also

• end up

Anagrams

• end up