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carry up

carry up verb: to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.

Verb

carry up (third-person singular simple present carries up, present participle carrying up, simple past and past participle carried up)

  1. (transitive) To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.
    • to carry up a wall
  2. (transitive) To trace back.
    • Mr. Noble is unwilling to carry up the genealogy of this family to an earlier ancestry […]1798, British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review, volume 10, page 425

Forms of carry up

third-person singular presentcarries up
present participlecarrying up
past participlecarried up
pastcarried up

Questions about carry up

What does carry up mean?
Carry up means to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.
What part of speech is carry up?
Carry up is a verb.
What is the past tense of carry up?
The past tense of carry up is carried up.

Words near carry up in the dictionary

  1. carry the torch
  2. carry the world before one
  3. carry through
  4. carry trade
  5. carry trades
  6. carry up
  7. carry water for
  8. carry weight
  9. carry-go-bring-come
  10. carry-go-bring-comes
  11. carry-in

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