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answered up

answered up is the simple past and past participle of answer up.

Meaning of answer up

Verb

answer up (third-person singular simple present answers up, present participle answering up, simple past and past participle answered up)

  1. (intransitive) To come forth with a prompt answer.
    • "Answer up, Tom," but Tom didn't answer up. So he said it again, and Tom didn't answer up again; and come to look, there warn't anything there but the mule—Tom was gone.c. 1884, Mark Twain, “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians”, in Walter Blair, editor, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories, published 2011, page 63

Questions about answered up

What is answered up the simple past and past participle of?
Answered up is the simple past and past participle of answer up.

Words near answered up in the dictionary

  1. answered someone's prayers
  2. answered the call
  3. answered the call of nature
  4. answered the helm
  5. answered to
  6. answered up
  7. answeredst
  8. answerer
  9. answerers
  10. answeres
  11. answerest

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