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figures up

figures up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of figure up.

Meaning of figure up

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

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What is figures up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Figures up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of figure up.

Words near figures up in the dictionary

  1. figures of fun
  2. figures of merit
  3. figures of speech
  4. figures on
  5. figures out
  6. figures up
  7. figuresome
  8. figurest
  9. figureth
  10. figurette
  11. figurettes

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