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checked up

checked up is the simple past and past participle of check up.

Meaning of check up

Verb

check up (third-person singular simple present checks up, present participle checking up, simple past and past participle checked up)

  1. (most often in phrasal verb "check up on") To verify through brief investigation or revisit for assurance that there are no problems.
    • I dropped by to check up on my friend.
  2. To verify something's accuracy.
    • He's checking up the figures.
  3. To seem correct or plausible; to comport with known facts; to check out (with other facts).
    • The numbers she provided check up with my own data.

Questions about checked up

What is checked up the simple past and past participle of?
Checked up is the simple past and past participle of check up.

Words near checked up in the dictionary

  1. checked syllables
  2. checked the math
  3. checked through
  4. checked tone
  5. checked tones
  6. checked up
  7. checked up on
  8. checked upstairs
  9. checkedst
  10. checkee
  11. checkees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: checked up (page history and authors); check 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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