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lush up

lush up verb: to make lush.

Verb

lush up (third-person singular simple present lushes up, present participle lushing up, simple past and past participle lushed up)

  1. (rare) To make lush
    • Warm rain and a south-west wind, lushing up the young grass in his meadows, and breathing gently upon the pear and the plum blossom!1927, Warwick Deeping, Doomsday, page 45
    • I had one boarder who's ^([sic]) horse got a gas colic after a rain that lushed up the pasture he had been on for months.2009 July 21, Eileen Morgan, “unbelievable”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet)

Forms of lush up

third-person singular presentlushes up
present participlelushing up
past participlelushed up
pastlushed up

Questions about lush up

What does lush up mean?
Lush up means to make lush.
What part of speech is lush up?
Lush up is a verb.
What is the past tense of lush up?
The past tense of lush up is lushed up.

Words near lush up in the dictionary

  1. lush
  2. lush around
  3. lush it up
  4. lush roller
  5. lush rollers
  6. lush up
  7. lush worker
  8. lush workers
  9. lush-crib
  10. lush-cribs
  11. lush-roll

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