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figure up

figure up verb: to add up or calculate.

Verb

figure up (third-person singular simple present figures up, present participle figuring up, simple past and past participle figured up)

  1. (transitive) To add up or calculate.
    • Third, clover increases the fertility of the soil by shading it almost constantly during the season of its growth. In figuring up the greater amount of fertility that clover could store up, I did not put this in.1893, Theodore Brainard Terry, Our Farming
    • The room was jammed; we'd never figured up its cubic space and measured it against the things we were buying1992, G. W. Hawkes, Spies in the Blue Smoke

Synonyms of figure up

Forms of figure up

third-person singular presentfigures up
present participlefiguring up
past participlefigured up
pastfigured up

Questions about figure up

What does figure up mean?
Figure up means to add up or calculate.
What part of speech is figure up?
Figure up is a verb.
What is the past tense of figure up?
The past tense of figure up is figured up.

Words near figure up in the dictionary

  1. figure skaters
  2. figure skates
  3. figure skating
  4. figure space
  5. figure spaces
  6. figure up
  7. figure weaving
  8. figure-caster
  9. figure-casters
  10. figure-eight
  11. figure-eight hitch

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