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flashing up

flashing up is the present participle and gerund of flash up.

Meaning of flash up

Verb

flash up (third-person singular simple present flashes up, present participle flashing up, simple past and past participle flashed up)

  1. (intransitive) To appear suddenly on a screen.
    • The word "ERROR" flashed up on the monitor, accompanied by a beeping sound.

Questions about flashing up

What is flashing up the present participle and gerund of?
Flashing up is the present participle and gerund of flash up.

Words near flashing up in the dictionary

  1. flashing lane
  2. flashing lanes
  3. flashing over
  4. flashing the ash
  5. flashing the cash
  6. flashing up
  7. flashingly
  8. flashings
  9. flashjack
  10. flashjacks
  11. flashlamp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flashing up (page history and authors); flash 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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