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upturned

[uhp-turnd, uhp-turnd] / ʌpˈtɜrnd, ˈʌpˌtɜrnd /
ADJECTIVE
overturned
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Upturned cups and plates, along with a teapot and coffee server and what’s left of a kerosene heater, give the impression that court personnel evacuated with some haste as Syrian troops drew near.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2017

Upturned faces blurred, vanished from sight down the long waves.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author of And Quiet Flows the Don and The Soil Upturned stays in his native village of Veshenskaya and writes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took my face between his hands and said— His face all dark between me and the stars— "What's love, Celeste, but this dear face of truth Upturned to heaven."

From Watchers of the Sky by Noyes, Alfred

Upturned mussel-shells, glittering in the sunshine, showed where crows had been at work, but there was not one now visible.

From After London Or, Wild England by Jefferies, Richard




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