upturned

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adj overturned

adjective. upside-down

1868, "upturned part," from up + turn. Meaning "improvement" (especially in economics) is from 1930.

And then she was on the sidewalk, her face, upturned to his, vivacious with excitement.

She was almost startled at the sweet yet sad face that was upturned to her gaze.

He sat upon an upturned box, with an empty pipe between his lips.

He caught her to him in a great embrace and kissed her pleading, upturned face.

The people were twisting and turning like worms on an upturned turf.

The man was smiling gravely down into the bright, upturned face.

Again and again he drank at the upturned fountain of affection, her lips.

But the heavy hammer––a blow on the upturned temple of the sleeper!

Jarvis stood on an upturned lintel, ten feet above Mark's head.

His upturned face was swollen, red, peeling all over the nose and cheeks.