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fasten up

fasten up verb: to fasten or attach.

Verb

fasten up (third-person singular simple present fastens up, present participle fastening up, simple past and past participle fastened up)

  1. (transitive) To fasten or attach
    • If you want to turn around, then turn around, but I shan't fasten you up.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act...

Forms of fasten up

third-person singular presentfastens up
present participlefastening up
past participlefastened up
pastfastened up

Questions about fasten up

What does fasten up mean?
Fasten up means to fasten or attach.
What part of speech is fasten up?
Fasten up is a verb.
What is the past tense of fasten up?
The past tense of fasten up is fastened up.

Words near fasten up in the dictionary

  1. fastbreaks
  2. fastcore
  3. fasted
  4. fasten
  5. fasten down
  6. fasten up
  7. fastenable
  8. fastened
  9. fastened down
  10. fastened up
  11. fastener

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