[UP- 2.]

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  1.  An upturned or upthrown part.

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1868.  Kinglake, Crimea, IV. v. 90. A little upturn of the soil with a few Turks standing behind it.

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  2.  fig. = UPHEAVAL 2.

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1864.  Gd. Words, 231/1. The upturns and the overthrows of war.

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1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, viii. 239. That idea of world-destruction, of that total upturn and Titanic revolution in the universe.

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1883.  19th Cent., May, 796. There has been no greater revolution and upturn of all preconceived notions.

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