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coloring up

coloring up is the present participle and gerund 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 coloring up

What is coloring up the present participle and gerund of?
Coloring up is the present participle and gerund of color up.

Words near coloring up in the dictionary

  1. coloring in
  2. coloring inside the lines
  3. coloring outside the lines
  4. coloring pencil
  5. coloring pencils
  6. coloring up
  7. colorings
  8. colorisation
  9. colorise
  10. colorised
  11. coloriser

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