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headed up

headed up is the simple past and past participle of head up.

Meaning of head up

Verb

head up (third-person singular simple present heads up, present participle heading up, simple past and past participle headed up)

  1. (transitive) To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.
    • We want you to head up the effort to organize all the entries.
  2. (transitive) To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it.
  3. To turn towards the wind

Questions about headed up

What is headed up the simple past and past participle of?
Headed up is the simple past and past participle of head up.

Words near headed up in the dictionary

  1. headed for the hills
  2. headed off
  3. headed off at the pass
  4. headed out
  5. headed south
  6. headed up
  7. headedly
  8. headedness
  9. Headen
  10. headend
  11. headender

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headed up (page history and authors); head 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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