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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inverted, upside-downadverb

    being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed

    "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake"

  2. upside downadverb

    in an inverted manner

    "the box was lying on the floor upside down"

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  1. upside-down

    Upside-down refers to the position where something is turned so that the part which is usually at the top is now at the bottom, or with the upper surface facing downward. It generally means inverting the usual order, direction, or arrangement of something. It can also refer to a state of confusion or disorder.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of upside-down in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of upside-down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of upside-down in a Sentence

  1. Sherri Aguilar:

    The best tree to use for the upside down tree is a 4-foot noble pine or noble fir, because the branches stick out very straight, do the lights on it first before the ornaments, or you will just end up crying.

  2. Hosea Williams:

    It touched me when it happened in real time, because I could see George Floyd begging to live. Begging to live. Let me breathe. They had a knee on George Floyd neck and the other two( officers) just standing there, can you imagine if that had been a Black policeman on a White man's neck ? You can bet the nation would have been turned upside down.

  3. Tim Donnelly:

    If you were an American who loved this country, you'd put the mosques on notice, you'd tell them, 'If you don't turn over the extremists and the jihadists within your midst then we'll set the FBI on you. We'll turn your mosques upside down. We'll make your lives a living hell until you rat out those who have declared war on America.' But instead you threaten the family and friends of the victims of your failure to identify and prosecute those who've sworn to kill anyone who doesn't pledge allegiance to their insane jihad.

  4. Erin Crosbie:

    I got what I though was the right degree, the right career path. ... I totally did not know that my whole life was about to get turned upside down.

  5. Nancy Goroff:

    I just got to a point in the last two years of being so frustrated and really infuriated at how The Republicans, and especially the President Donald Trump administration and our representative here, Lee Zeldin, were ignoring science and ignoring facts and evidence and had their priorities so upside down and backwards, that they were hurting people, and that was before Covid-19.


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