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fed up

fed up is the simple past and past participle of feed up.

Meaning of feed up

Verb

feed up (third-person singular simple present feeds up, present participle feeding up, simple past and past participle fed up)

  1. (transitive) To feed (a person or animal) until they are at a healthy weight.

Adjective

fed up (comparative more fed up, superlative most fed up)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Frustrated, annoyed, or tired, to the limit of one's endurance, especially by something that one has experienced for too long.
    • After two days, I am fed up with this nonsense.
    • I am fed up watching football on TV.

Verb

fed up (third-person singular simple present feds up, present participle fedding up, simple past and past participle fedded up)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To annoy; to be annoyed by something; to reach one's limits of annoyance.
    • She was fedding up with the boy's hijinks.
    • His behavior fed her up.

Forms of fed up

Adjective
comparativemore fed up
superlativemost fed up
Verb
third-person singular presentfeds up
present participlefedding up
past participlefedded up
pastfedded up

Origin of fed up

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about fed up

What does fed up mean?
Fed up means frustrated, annoyed, or tired, to the limit of one's endurance, especially by something that one has experienced for too long.
What is fed up the simple past and past participle of?
Fed up is the simple past and past participle of feed up.
What part of speech is fed up?
Fed up can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near fed up in the dictionary

  1. fed the dragon
  2. fed the fire
  3. fed the meter
  4. fed through
  5. fed two birds with one scone
  6. fed up
  7. fed up to the back teeth
  8. fed up to the teeth
  9. Fed'n
  10. fed-up
  11. fed-upness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fed up (page history and authors); feed up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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