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chiming up

chiming up is the present participle and gerund of chime up.

Meaning of chime up

Verb

chime up (third-person singular simple present chimes up, present participle chiming up, simple past and past participle chimed up)

  1. (nonstandard) To speak suddenly; to make an unexpected contribution to a conversation.

Questions about chiming up

What is chiming up the present participle and gerund of?
Chiming up is the present participle and gerund of chime up.

Words near chiming up in the dictionary

  1. chiminages
  2. chiminea
  3. chimineas
  4. chiming
  5. chiming in
  6. chiming up
  7. chimingly
  8. chimings
  9. Chiminigagua
  10. chiminology
  11. chimiocompetent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chiming up (page history and authors); chime 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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