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colored up

colored up is the simple past and past participle of color up.

Meaning of color up

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.

Questions about colored up

What is colored up the simple past and past participle of?
Colored up is the simple past and past participle of color up.

Words near colored up in the dictionary

  1. colored outside the lines
  2. colored pencil
  3. colored pencils
  4. Colored People Time
  5. Colored People's Time
  6. colored up
  7. coloreds
  8. colorer
  9. colorers
  10. colores
  11. colorfast

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