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checking up

checking up is the present participle and gerund 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 checking up

What is checking up the present participle and gerund of?
Checking up is the present participle and gerund of check up.

Words near checking up in the dictionary

  1. checking one's eyelids for leaks
  2. checking out
  3. checking over
  4. checking the math
  5. checking through
  6. checking up
  7. checking up on
  8. checking upstairs
  9. checkings
  10. checkitis
  11. checklaton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: checking 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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