a shocker designed to up-end matrons

  • 1upend — Date: 1823 transitive verb 1. to set or stand on end; also overturn 1 2. a. to affect to the point of being upset or flurried < a…literary shocker, designed to upend the credulous matrons Wolcott Gibbs > b. defeat, beat intransitive verb to rise&#8230; …

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