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gutting up

gutting up is the present participle and gerund of gut up.

Meaning of gut up

Verb

gut up (third-person singular simple present guts up, present participle gutting up, simple past and past participle gutted up)

  1. (imperative, intransitive, slang) To show courage and hide one's apprehension.

Questions about gutting up

What is gutting up the present participle and gerund of?
Gutting up is the present participle and gerund of gut up.

Words near gutting up in the dictionary

  1. guttiform
  2. guttiness
  3. gutting
  4. gutting for
  5. gutting out
  6. gutting up
  7. guttings
  8. guttle
  9. guttled
  10. guttler
  11. guttlers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gutting up (page history and authors); gut 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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