up-end

present singular third person up-ends · participle present up-ending · participle past up-ended · past up-ended

1. To turn (something) upside down, to invert (something).

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

   1981, Horst Ruthrof, The Reader's Construction of Narrative, →ISBN, page 167

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   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

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

   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.

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