Happy Monday, word lovers!
✨ UPEND✨
Literally, it means to turn something upside down
🔹 The strong wind UPENDED many of her flower pots.
Figuratively, it means to disrupt, overturn.
🔹 The fierce snowstorm upended many people’s weekend plans.
Here are some recent headlines with this verb. It’s dramatic, so it catches people’s attention.
– “Trump echoes Russia as he UPENDS US position on Ukraine” (BBC News)
– “‘Conclave’ triumphs at SAG Awards and Timothée Chalamet wins best actor, UPENDING Oscar predictions” (AP)
“Gravel from space grab UPENDS theories of how life began” (Daily Maverick)
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