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• v  become turned or set on end
  the airplanes upended
• v  set, turn, or stand on end
• s  turned up on end

• He brought all of that, both his gifts and his psychic injuries, to this grave and lyrical story of Rufus Follet, a boy whose world is upended by his father's sudden death in an .
• Earlier than most, Sorrell understood that advertising was being upended.
• He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order.

• upend

News & Articles

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• Robert W. Fogel, Nobel-laureate economist, dies at 86
  NEW YORK — Robert W. Fogel — a Nobel-laureate economist whose number-crunching empiricism upended established thinking, most provocatively about the economics of slavery — died Tuesday in Oak Lawn, Ill. He was 86.        
  June 13, 2013 - Boston Globe
• The 'Black Swan' Intern Ruling Could Change Unpaid Internships Forever
  The case of the unpaid American intern just got upended — again, and maybe for good: Just a month after one judge dismissed the class-action suit filed by free New York City media interns at Hearst Magazines, another has now granted the Hollywood coffee-fetchers who worked on Black Swan a precedent-setting win, ruling that the two production interns "worked as paid employees" and that Fox ...
  June 12, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
• People are now running from bonds. Running.
  The financial crisis upended a lot of things about the established order. Swaggering bankers were brought to their knees. Spendthrift Americans started saving—briefly. A decades long deregulatory fetish ...
  June 11, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Tim Pawlenty in amNewYork
  Each pile of rubble represents somebody's life that has been destroyed or upended in a horrific way,Pawlenty said.
• Barack Obama in Sydney Morning Herald
  This spill has not just damaged livelihoods, it's upended whole communities,Mr Obama said. "And the fury people feel is not just about the money they've lost. They've been through tough times before. It's about the wrenching recognition...
• Sheldon Whitehouse in CBS News
  The empathy President Obama saw in you has a constitutionally fitting placeon the court, Whitehouse said. "A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted, even upended, where the Constitution or laws may...