turn upside down

English

Alternative forms

• turn upside-down

Verb

turn upside down (third-person singular simple present turns upside down, present participle turning upside down, simple past and past participle turned upside down)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To flip over; to rotate top to bottom.

   Turn the box upside down and look at the bottom.

   Synonyms: flip over, turn over

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To thoroughly examine.

   They turned the house upside down looking for the car keys.

Translations

to rotate top to bottom

• Arabic: جَعَلَ عَالِيَ الشَّيْءِ سَافِلَهُ (jaʕala ʕāliya š-šayʔi sāfilahu), قَلَبَ (ar) (qalaba), كَفَأَ (kafaʔa)
• French: renverser (fr)
• Galician: envorcar, voltear (gl)
• German: umdrehen (de)
• Korean: 뒤집어엎다 (dwijibeo'eopda), 엎다 (eopda)
• Latin: invertō
• Ngazidja Comorian: ukausa
• Spanish: dar la vuelta, girar (es), voltear (es)