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glove up

glove up verb: to don a pair of (e.g. surgical) gloves.

Verb

glove up (third-person singular simple present gloves up, present participle gloving up, simple past and past participle gloved up)

  1. (intransitive) To don a pair of (e.g. surgical) gloves.

Forms of glove up

third-person singular presentgloves up
present participlegloving up
past participlegloved up
pastgloved up

Questions about glove up

What does glove up mean?
Glove up means to don a pair of (e.g. surgical) gloves.
What part of speech is glove up?
Glove up is a verb.
What is the past tense of glove up?
The past tense of glove up is gloved up.

Words near glove up in the dictionary

  1. glove money
  2. glove puppet
  3. glove puppets
  4. glove sponge
  5. glove sponges
  6. glove up
  7. glove-maker
  8. glovebag
  9. glovebags
  10. glovebox
  11. gloveboxes

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