The word "upending" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the process of overturning something or flipping it upside down, usually in an unexpected manner. For example: "The election results upended the balance of power in Washington."
Boro were immediately back in trouble, however, and George Friend was shown a red card for upending Rodallega to concede another penalty, which was converted once more by McCormack.
Forster's aberration in upending Naismith followed – neither the penalty nor the goalkeeper's sending off was contested by Lennon – with Steven Whittaker converting to send Rangers in front before the interval.
Prosecutor David Bate QC said Buck had also tried to sit next to another female passenger claiming she was his wife, before turning his attention to a hostess trolley, upending it and sending crockery flying.
With Knausgaard it was more like upending the contents and shaking them on to the page.
New technologies are already upending industries.
The federal raid of a meatpacking plant in Iowa in 2008 exposed the worst side of America's system, charging immigrants as serious criminals, separating families and upending a town.
More curiously, Mr Miliband proposed upending basic tenets of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism, including getting rid of quarterly earnings reports and pledging that a Labour government would intervene to punish companies that did not hire apprentices, with further retribution lurking for those who poached their rivals' trained staff.
The fear is that overstretched borrowers will now dump their nouveau-classical villas and vulgar condominiums, upending the property market and inflicting wider damage on the economy.
A settlement upending the system would be the most likely result.
But in Japan, they are upending the tight-knit business culture to an even greater extent.
