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fastens up

fastens up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 fastens up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fastens up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fasten up.

Words near fastens up in the dictionary

  1. fastening up
  2. fastenings
  3. fastens
  4. fastens down
  5. Fastens Tuesday
  6. fastens up
  7. faster
  8. faster than a minnow can swim a dipper
  9. faster than light
  10. faster than Minute Rice
  11. faster-acting

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