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inches up

inches up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 inches up

What is inches up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Inches up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inch up.

Words near inches up in the dictionary

  1. inches
  2. inches along
  3. inches away
  4. inches back
  5. inches forward
  6. inches up
  7. inchful
  8. inchfuls
  9. Inchgarvie
  10. inchi
  11. Inchicore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inches 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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