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up-end

verb

Definitions

  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.
    • 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

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