Synonyms of the word

upset

• adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to…
• n. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
• n. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored…
• n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
• n. An upset stomach.
• n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is…
• v. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• v. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
• v. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
• v. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
• v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
• v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
• v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

agitation

• n. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with…
• n. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical…
• n. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
• n. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest…

arouse

• v. To stimulate feelings.
• v. To sexually stimulate.
• v. To wake from sleep or stupor.

broken

• v. past participle of break.
• adj. Fragmented, in separate pieces.
• adj. (of a promise, etc) Breeched; violated; not kept.
• adj. Non-functional; not functioning properly.
• adj. (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
• adj. Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
• adj. (of land) Uneven.
• adj. (sports and gaming, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.

condition

• n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
• n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
• n. The health status of a medical patient.
• n. The state or quality.
• n. A particular state of being.
• n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
• v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
• v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
• v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
• v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

confused

• v. simple past tense and past participle of confuse.
• adj. (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand.
• adj. (of a person or animal) disoriented.
• adj. chaotic, jumbled or muddled.
• adj. making no sense; illogical.
• adj. embarrassed.

defeat

• v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
• v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
• v. (transitive) To nullify.
• n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

derangement

• n. The property of being deranged.
• n. An act or instance of deranging.
• n. (mathematics) A permutation of a set such that no element is in its previous position.

discomfit

• v. (archaic) To defeat completely; to rout.
• v. To defeat the plans or hopes of; to frustrate.
• v. (proscribed) To embarrass greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
• adj. (obsolete) Discomfited; overthrown.

discompose

• v. (transitive) To destroy the composure of something.

disconcert

• v. (transitive) To upset the composure of.
• v. (transitive) To bring into confusion.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, make go wrong.

disorder

• n. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
• n. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
• n. (medicine, countable) A physical or psychical malfunction.
• v. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
• v. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

disordered

• v. simple past tense and past participle of disorder.
• adj. Chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder.
• adj. Deranged.

disorganised

• adj. Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of disorganise.

disorganized

• v. simple past tense and past participle of disorganize.
• adj. Lacking order or organization; confused; chaotic.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

disquieted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of disquiet.

distressed

• adj. anxious or uneasy.
• adj. (of merchandise, etc.) damaged.
• adj. (of a property) offered for sale after foreclosure.
• adj. (of furniture, etc.) faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of distress.

disturb

• v. (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions…
• v. (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
• v. (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
• n. (obsolete) disturbance.

disturbance

• n. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
• n. Something that disturbs.
• n. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
• n. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
• n. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.

disturbed

• adj. Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
• adj. Extremely alarmed; shocked.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of disturb.

elicit

• v. To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or…
• v. To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
• v. To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason; deduce; construe.
• adj. (obsolete) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

enkindle

• v. To kindle; to arouse or evoke.

evoke

• v. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

fire

• n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
• n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
• n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
• n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
• n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
• n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
• v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
• v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
• v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
• v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
• v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
• v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
• v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• v. To feed or serve the fire of.
• v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• v. (farriery) To cauterize.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
• interj. A signal to shoot.

forge

• n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
• v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• v. To form or create with concerted effort.
• v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
• v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
• v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

ill

• adj. (obsolete) Evil; wicked (of people).
• adj. (archaic) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
• adj. Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
• adj. Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
• adj. Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
• adj. Having an urge to vomit.
• adj. (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
• adj. (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
• adv. Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
• n. (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
• n. Harm or injury.
• n. Evil; moral wrongfulness.
• n. A physical ailment; an illness.
• n. (US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.

impress

• v. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
• v. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
• v. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
• v. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
• v. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
• v. (figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
• v. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
• n. The act of impressing.
• n. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
• n. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
• n. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
• n. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
• n. A heraldic device; an impresa.
• n. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which…

inversion

• n. the action of inverting.
• n. being upside down, in an inverted state.
• n. being in a reverse sequence, in an inverted state.
• n. (music).
• n. (genetics) a segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to…
• n. (meteorology) An increase of air temperature with increase in altitude (the ground being colder than the…
• n. (grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place…
• n. (algebra) An operation on a group analogous to negation.
• n. (psychology, obsolete) an outdated term for homosexuality, particularly popular in early psychoanalysis.

kindle

• v. (intransitive, of a rabbit or hare) To bring forth young; to give birth.
• n. (rare, collective) A group of kittens.
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc).
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To begin to grow or take hold.

mold

• n. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
• n. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
• n. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
• n. The shape or pattern of a mold.
• n. General shape or form.
• n. Distinctive character or type.
• n. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
• n. (architecture) A group of moldings.
• n. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
• v. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold.
• v. (transitive) To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
• v. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence.
• v. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
• v. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
• v. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
• v. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
• n. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material…
• v. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
• v. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
• n. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
• v. To cover with mold or soil.

mould

• n. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.
• v. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

overcome

• v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
• v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
• v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
• v. To overflow; to surcharge.

overthrow

• v. (transitive, now rare) To throw down to the ground, to overturn.
• v. (transitive) To bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force.
• n. A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To throw (something) so that it goes too far.
• n. (sports) A throw that goes too far.
• n. (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence…

overturn

• v. To turn over, capsize or upset (something).
• v. To overthrow or destroy something.
• v. (law) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind.
• v. To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

overturned

• v. simple past tense and past participle of overturn.

perturbation

• n. (uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed.
• n. (countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological…
• n. (countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies.

provoke

• v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
• v. (obsolete) To appeal.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

sick

• adj. Having an urge to vomit.
• adj. (chiefly US) In poor health.
• adj. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
• adj. (colloquial) In bad taste.
• adj. Tired of or annoyed by something.
• adj. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
• adj. In poor condition.
• adj. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
• n. Sick people in general as a group.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) vomit.
• v. To vomit.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
• v. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic.

status

• n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
• n. Prestige or high standing.
• n. A situation or state of affairs.
• n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
• n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

success

• n. (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
• n. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
• n. (business) financial profitability.
• n. One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
• n. The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

swage

• n. A tool, used by blacksmiths and other metalworkers, for cold shaping of a metal item.
• v. To bend or shape through use of a swage.
• v. Obsolete form of assuage.

tool

• n. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
• n. Equipment used in a profession, e.g., tools of the trade.
• n. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
• n. (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
• n. A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
• n. (slang) Penis.
• n. (by extension, slang, pejorative) An obnoxious or uptight person.
• v. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
• v. (transitive) To equip with tools.
• v. (transitive) To work very hard.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to…
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To drive (a coach, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

trouble

• n. A distressing or dangerous situation.
• n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
• n. A violent occurrence or event.
• n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• n. A malfunction.
• n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
• n. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
• v. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
• v. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
• v. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.

troubled

• adj. Anxious, worried, careworn.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of trouble.

turned

• v. simple past tense and past participle of turn.

turnover

• n. The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
• n. The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers are replaced after leaving,…
• n. A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling…
• n. (sports) A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
• n. A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides…
• n. The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
• n. (dated) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
• adj. Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.

unexpected

• adj. Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

untune

• v. (transitive) To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

upending

• v. present participle of upend.
• n. An act of overthrowing or turning over.

upturned

• adj. turned over; inverted; capsized.
• adj. (of a nose etc.) turned up at the end.
• adj. looking upwards, turned upwards.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

worried

• adj. Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of worry.