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appling up

appling up is the present participle and gerund of apple up.

Meaning of apple up

Verb

apple up (third-person singular simple present apples up, present participle appling up, simple past and past participle appled up)

  1. (intransitive) To gain the qualities of an apple (as in size or color, usually cheeks blushing red).

Questions about appling up

What is appling up the present participle and gerund of?
Appling up is the present participle and gerund of apple up.

Words near appling up in the dictionary

  1. appliment
  2. appliments
  3. Applin
  4. appling
  5. Appling County
  6. appling up
  7. Applins
  8. applique
  9. appliqued
  10. appliqueing
  11. appliquer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: appling up (page history and authors); apple up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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