overturn vs upset

overturn

verb
  • To turn over, capsize or upset. 

  • To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to make a comeback from. 

  • To overthrow or destroy. 

  • Of a body of water: to undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths. 

  • To reverse (a decision); to overrule or rescind. 

noun
  • The overturning or overthrow of some institution or state of affairs; ruin. 

  • A turning over or upside-down; inversion. 

upset

verb
  • To tip or overturn (something). 

  • To be upset or knocked over. 

  • To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. 

  • To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • To defeat unexpectedly. 

  • To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. 

  • To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). 

adj
  • Angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit. 

noun
  • An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U. 

  • The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control. 

  • An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. 

  • An overturn. 

  • Disturbance or disruption. 

  • An upset stomach. 

How often have the words overturn and upset occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )