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bolstered up

bolstered up is the simple past and past participle of bolster up.

Meaning of bolster up

Verb

bolster up (third-person singular simple present bolsters up, present participle bolstering up, simple past and past participle bolstered up)

  1. (figuratively, transitive, usually) To bolster (something); to provide support to (something).
    • This ought to bolster up the case for intervention in the conflict.

Questions about bolstered up

What is bolstered up the simple past and past participle of?
Bolstered up is the simple past and past participle of bolster up.

Words near bolstered up in the dictionary

  1. bolster
  2. bolster up
  3. bolster wagon
  4. bolster wagons
  5. bolstered
  6. bolstered up
  7. bolsterer
  8. bolsterers
  9. bolstereth
  10. bolstering
  11. bolstering up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolstered up (page history and authors); bolster 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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