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jazzing up

jazzing up is the present participle and gerund of jazz up.

Meaning of jazz up

Verb

jazz up (third-person singular simple present jazzes up, present participle jazzing up, simple past and past participle jazzed up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To make gaudy and bright.
    • Near-synonyms: liven up, enliven, brighten up, brighten; gaudify
  2. (informal, transitive) To make more interesting by additions.
    • Near-synonyms: liven up, enliven; spice up; customize
  3. (informal, transitive) To give a rhythm or melody reminiscent of jazz.
    • They played a jazzed-up version of the original song.
    Synonyms:
    jazzify

Questions about jazzing up

What is jazzing up the present participle and gerund of?
Jazzing up is the present participle and gerund of jazz up.

Words near jazzing up in the dictionary

  1. jazzifying
  2. jazzily
  3. jazziness
  4. jazzing
  5. jazzing around
  6. jazzing up
  7. jazzish
  8. jazzist
  9. jazzistic
  10. jazzists
  11. jazzless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jazzing up (page history and authors); jazz 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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