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basting up

basting up is the present participle and gerund of baste up.

Meaning of baste up

Verb

baste up (third-person singular simple present bastes up, present participle basting up, simple past and past participle basted up)

  1. (transitive) To prepare or treat a fabric by basting (to sew with long or loose stitches).

Questions about basting up

What is basting up the present participle and gerund of?
Basting up is the present participle and gerund of baste up.

Words near basting up in the dictionary

  1. bastinadoed
  2. bastinadoes
  3. bastinadoing
  4. bastinados
  5. basting
  6. basting up
  7. bastings
  8. Bastins
  9. bastion
  10. bastion forest
  11. bastion forests

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Adapted from Wiktionary: basting up (page history and authors); baste 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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