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matching up

matching up is the present participle and gerund of match up.

Meaning of match up

Verb

match up (third-person singular simple present matches up, present participle matching up, simple past and past participle matched up)

  1. (intransitive) To be similar or the same.
    • Unfortunately, none of the numbers on my lottery ticket matched up with the ones drawn.
  2. (transitive) To put together, or in a pair.
    • After matching up all the socks in the draw, I threw away those without a pair.
  3. (transitive) To matchmake; to set up a romantic meeting between two people.
    • She thought James asked her on a date because he was interested in her, but it turned out he wanted to match her up with his brother.

Questions about matching up

What is matching up the present participle and gerund of?
Matching up is the present participle and gerund of match up.

Words near matching up in the dictionary

  1. matchiness
  2. matching
  3. matching beat for beat
  4. matching number
  5. matching numbers
  6. matching up
  7. Matchinga
  8. Matchingas
  9. matchingness
  10. matchings
  11. matchless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: matching up (page history and authors); match 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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