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based upon

based upon is the simple past and past participle of base upon.

Meaning of base upon

Verb

base upon (third-person singular simple present bases upon, present participle basing upon, simple past and past participle based upon)

  1. (ditransitive, formal) To base on.

Questions about based upon

What is based upon the simple past and past participle of?
Based upon is the simple past and past participle of base upon.

Words near based upon in the dictionary

  1. basecourts
  2. based
  3. based off
  4. based off of
  5. based on
  6. based upon
  7. basedness
  8. Basedow
  9. Basedow's disease
  10. Basedow's syndrome
  11. Baseej

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Adapted from Wiktionary: based upon (page history and authors); base upon (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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