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baby up

baby up verb: to treat as a baby.

Verb

baby up (third-person singular simple present babies up, present participle babying up, simple past and past participle babied up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To treat as a baby.
  2. (intransitive) To have babies or children to care for
    • I've been babied up for more than a decade.

Forms of baby up

third-person singular presentbabies up
present participlebabying up
past participlebabied up
pastbabied up

Questions about baby up

What does baby up mean?
Baby up means to treat as a baby.
What part of speech is baby up?
Baby up is a verb.
What is the past tense of baby up?
The past tense of baby up is babied up.

Words near baby up in the dictionary

  1. baby trap
  2. baby trapped
  3. baby trapping
  4. baby traps
  5. baby Ts
  6. baby up
  7. baby vamp
  8. baby vamps
  9. baby walker
  10. baby walkers
  11. Baby Warship

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