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glown up

glown up is the past participle of glow up.

Meaning of glow up

Verb

glow up (third-person singular simple present glows up, present participle glowing up, simple past glowed up or (dialectal) glew up, past participle glowed up or (dialectal) glown up)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To undergo a glow-up.
    • We've all changed quite a bit since freshman year (thank goodness), but some people have particularly "glowed up."2017 May 11, Rebecca Noel, “Senior Glow Ups”, in Lecacy, The Kinkaid School, page 29
  2. (slang, transitive) To cause to undergo a glow-up.
    • Speaking as a longtime iPhone user, I find it undeniable that Portrait mode — a marquee technology in a recent edition of the most popular phones in the world — has been glowed up.2019 February 24, Alexis C. Madrigal, “No, You Don't Really Look Like That”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, page 18

Questions about glown up

What is glown up the past participle of?
Glown up is the past participle of glow up.

Words near glown up in the dictionary

  1. glowlamps
  2. glowless
  3. glowlight
  4. glowlights
  5. glown
  6. glown up
  7. glownigger
  8. glowniggers
  9. gloworm
  10. gloworms
  11. glowplug

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