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fastening up

fastening up is the present participle and gerund of fasten up.

Meaning of fasten up

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...

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What is fastening up the present participle and gerund of?
Fastening up is the present participle and gerund of fasten up.

Words near fastening up in the dictionary

  1. fasteners
  2. fastenest
  3. fasteneth
  4. fastening
  5. fastening down
  6. fastening up
  7. fastenings
  8. fastens
  9. fastens down
  10. Fastens Tuesday
  11. fastens up

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