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carrying up

carrying up is the present participle and gerund of carry up.

Meaning of carry up

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

Questions about carrying up

What is carrying up the present participle and gerund of?
Carrying up is the present participle and gerund of carry up.

Words near carrying up in the dictionary

  1. carrying the mantle
  2. carrying the message to Garcia
  3. carrying the torch
  4. carrying the world before one
  5. carrying through
  6. carrying up
  7. carrying violation
  8. carrying violations
  9. carrying water for
  10. carrying weight
  11. carrying-on

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