Try and Upset

Try

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Upset and try are semantically related. in bother topic. In some cases you can use "Upset" instead the word "Try" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: tried, trying

Upset verb - To trouble the mind of; to make uneasy.

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Try and upset are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Try" instead the word "Upset" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Word: upsetting

good	good try	good upset
usual	usual try	usual upset
complete	complete try	complete upset
plain	plain try	plain upset
Other adjectives: real, great, huge, major, former, impossible, younger.

life	try life	upset life
people	try people	upset people
relationship	try relationship	upset relationship
problem	try problem	upset problem
Other words: someone, time, way, plan, game, everyone, times, friends.

And apparently, no one expected the original mad scientist to get upset and try to take his weapon back...

Source: Apocalypse How / Class X-2
Similarly, none of his protagonists have any problems setting them up as patsies, and if they get upset and try to attack the protagonist, expect a Curb-Stomp Battle that the survivalist will be lucky to get a quick and somewhat undignified death from.

Source: Creator / Andrew Vachss
When his plan was rejected he and his supporters refused to back down and after the War in Heaven, were banished to the outer darkness, where they continue to try and upset the Plan of Salvation.

Source: The Evils of Free Will

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