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Uprisings
- noun - organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
Uprooters
- noun - a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"
Uprooting
- verb - destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people"
- pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
Upsetters
- noun - an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor
Upsetting
- verb - cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
- causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team"
- disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"
- form metals with a swage
- move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
Upsitting
- - A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends.
Upspurner
- - A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.
Upstagers
- noun - a selfish actor who upstages the other actors
Upstaging
- verb - move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
- steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"
- treat snobbishly, put in one's place