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color up

color up verb: to blush (to go red).

Verb

color up (third-person singular simple present colors up, present participle coloring up, simple past and past participle colored up)

  1. To blush (to go red).
    • Alice had already begun to colour up and was beginning to speak, when her Ladyship perceiving her displeasure, continued thus.1790, Jane Austen, “Jack and Alice”, in Juvenilia
  2. To exchange a high number of low-value chips (of one color) for a lower number of higher value (of a different color), but keeping the same overall value.

Forms of color up

third-person singular presentcolors up
present participlecoloring up
past participlecolored up
pastcolored up
alternative formcolour up

Questions about color up

What does color up mean?
Color up means to blush (to go red).
What part of speech is color up?
Color up is a verb.
What is the past tense of color up?
The past tense of color up is colored up.

Words near color up in the dictionary

  1. color timings
  2. color triangle
  3. color triangles
  4. color TV
  5. color TVs
  6. color up
  7. color war
  8. color wars
  9. color wash
  10. color wheel
  11. color wheels

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