turn upside down

English

Alternative forms

turn upside-down

Verb

turn upside down

(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
(transitive, idiomatic) To thoroughly examine.
They turned the house upside down looking for the car keys.

Translations

to rotate top to bottom

French: renverser (fr)
Galician: envorcar, voltear (gl)
German: umdrehen (de)

Latin: invertō
Ngazidja Comorian: ukausa

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