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| Main Entry: |
overturned
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upside-down |
| Synonyms: | backward, bottom up, bottom-side-up, capsized, confused, disordered, downside-up, haywire, helter-skelter, in chaos, in disarray, inverted, jumbled, mixed-up, on head, reversed, tangled, topsy-turvy, upended, upset, upturned, wrong way, wrong-side-up |
| Main Entry: | topsy-turvy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mixed-up |
| Synonyms: | chaotic, cluttered, cockeyed, confused, disarranged, disheveled, disjointed, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, downside-up, inside-out, inverted, jumbled, littered, luxated, messy, muddled, overturned, pell-mell, riotous, tangled, tumultous/tumultuous, unhinged, untidy, upended, upside-down, upturned |
| Antonyms: | ordered, organized, straight |
| Main Entry: | upset |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disturbed, bothered |
| Synonyms: | agitated, all torn up, amazed, antsy*, apprehensive, blue*, broken up, bummed out, capsized, chaotic, come apart, confused, disconcerted, dismayed, disordered, disquieted, distressed, dragged, frantic, grieved, hurt, ill, in disarray, jittery, jumpy, low, muddled, overturned, overwrought, psyched out, rattled, ruffled, shocked, shook up, sick, spilled, thrown, tipped over, toppled, troubled, tumbled, unglued, unsettled, unzipped, upside-down, worried |
| Antonyms: | happy, undisturbed, unworried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | upside down |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reversed |
| Synonyms: | backwards, bottom up, inside out, inverted, orderless, overturned, topsy-turvy, upside-down, vice versa, without order, wrong side out |
| Main Entry: | capsized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upside-down |
| Synonyms: | bottom-side-up, flipped, flipped over, inverted, overturned, tipped over, upended, upset, upturned |
| Main Entry: | inverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upside-down |
| Synonyms: | backward, bottom up, bottom-side-up, capsized, confused, disordered, downside-up, haywire, helter-skelter, in chaos, in disarray, jumbled, mixed-up, on head, overturned, reversed, tangled, topsy-turvy, upended, upset, upturned, wrong way, wrong-side-up |
| Main Entry: | abolish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do away with or put an end to |
| Synonyms: | abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, destroy, disestablish, dissolve, end, eradicate, erase, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, finish, inhibit, invalidate, kill, negate, nix, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, prohibit, put an end to, put kibosh on, put the kibosh on, quash, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, scrub, set aside, squelch, stamp out, subvert, supersede, suppress, terminate, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, wipe out, zap |
| Antonyms: | confirm, continue, enact, establish, institute, legalize, promote, ratify, support, uphold |
| Main Entry: | bring down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce or hurt |
| Synonyms: | KO, abase, cut down, damage, drop, fell, floor, injure, knock down, lay low, level, lower, mow down, murder*, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, shoot down, slay, throw down, tumble, undermine, upset, wound |
| Antonyms: | aid, encourage, help, raise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disprove, refute |
| Synonyms: | blow sky high, break, bring to naught, confound, contradict, controvert, defeat, demolish, dismay, disprove, expose, invalidate, knocks props out from under, negate, oppugn, overcome, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, prove false, prove wrong, put down, rebut, set aside, shut up, silence, subvert, tap, upset, vanquish |
| Notes: | refute means 'to show conclusively to be false or illogical' and applies primarily to assertions or arguments; confute means 'to prove wrong' and applies primarily to the person or agency making the assertion or argument |
| Antonyms: | affirm, attest, confirm, endorse, prove, verify |
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