upside-down

upside down

adv.

1. So that the upper or right side is down: turned upside down.

2. In great disorder.

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[Alteration of Middle English up so doun, up as if down : up, up; see up + so, as if; see so¹ + doun, down; see down¹.]

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upside-down (psd-doun) adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

upside-down - being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down cake" inverted turned - moved around an axis or center

Translations

upside-down [ˈʌpsaɪdˈdaʊn]

A. ADV → al revés; (= untidily) → patas arriba
to turn sth upside-down → volver algo al revés (fig) → revolverlo todo
we turned everything upside-down looking for it → al buscarlo lo revolvimos todo, en la búsqueda lo registramos todo de arriba abajo

B. ADJ → al revés
to be upside-down → estar al revés
the room was upside-down → reinaba el desorden en el cuarto, en el cuarto todo estaba patas arriba

upside-down

adj

in an upside-down position → verkehrt herum; to be upside-down (picture) → verkehrt herum hängen, auf dem Kopf stehen; (world) → kopfstehen; an upside-down map of Britain → eine auf dem Kopf stehende Karte Großbritanniens; a pineapple upside-down cake → ein versunkener Ananaskuchen

(fig, = bizarre) the weather is completely upside-down → das Wetter spielt völlig verrückt (inf)