Definitions for upturn

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upturn up·turn

Spelling: [verb uhp-turn, uhp-turn; noun Upturn is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in upturn (nprtuu).

Definitions for upturn

noun

1. chaos or extreme disorder, as in society; an upheaval.
2. an upward turn, or a changing and rising movement, as in prices or business.

verb (used with object)

1. to turn up or over:
2. to cause disorder; upheave:
3. to direct or turn upward:

verb (used without object)

1. to turn up or upward:

Origin of upturn

1300-50; Middle English: to overturn; see up-, turn

Examples for upturn

But those most dramatically affected by the “amazing” upturn are people who write comic novels and blog for The Daily Beast.

Is it consolidation to resist the force that is threatening to upturn our government?

I expect young McClellan to deal blows, and thus to upturn the Micawber policy.

But after a' the Kirk was oor ain mither, and what for should the King misca' or upturn her?

The jackal will crouch in your palaces, and the ploughshare will upturn your tombs.

If your 11-year-old mocks you by making a cawing voice, upturn his dinner plate and mock his mocking voice.

Instead of forcing the enemy to do what we want, and upturn his schemes, McClellan seemingly does the bidding of Beauregard.

At length the people rose in wrath and began to upturn the government and try to set up a new state of things.

For I had gazed straight down into the upturn'd faces of Captain Settle and his gang.

In other words, what you wish to point out is that the Commerce Street ramp takes an upturn about half way up the ramp?