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inched up

inched up is the simple past and past participle of inch up.

Meaning of inch up

Verb

inch up (third-person singular simple present inches up, present participle inching up, simple past and past participle inched up)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To move or increase by small increments, typically slowly and carefully.

Questions about inched up

What is inched up the simple past and past participle of?
Inched up is the simple past and past participle of inch up.

Words near inched up in the dictionary

  1. inched
  2. inched along
  3. inched away
  4. inched back
  5. inched forward
  6. inched up
  7. Incheon
  8. incher
  9. inchers
  10. inches
  11. inches along

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inched up (page history and authors); inch 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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