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checks up

checks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 checks up

What is checks up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Checks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of check up.

Words near checks up in the dictionary

  1. checks out
  2. checks over
  3. checks play
  4. checks the math
  5. checks through
  6. checks up
  7. checks up on
  8. checks upstairs
  9. Checksfield
  10. checksheet
  11. checksheets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: checks 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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