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mush up

mush up verb: to cause to become mushy; to crush into a paste.

Verb

mush up (third-person singular simple present mushes up, present participle mushing up, simple past and past participle mushed up)

  1. (ambitransitive, idiomatic) to cause to become mushy; to crush into a paste
    • My baby's food needs to be mushed up before she can eat it.

Forms of mush up

third-person singular presentmushes up
present participlemushing up
past participlemushed up
pastmushed up

Questions about mush up

What does mush up mean?
Mush up means to cause to become mushy; to crush into a paste.
What part of speech is mush up?
Mush up is a verb.
What is the past tense of mush up?
The past tense of mush up is mushed up.

Words near mush up in the dictionary

  1. Musgrove
  2. Musgroves
  3. Musgu
  4. mush
  5. mush it up
  6. mush up
  7. musha
  8. mushabak
  9. mushaf
  10. mushafs
  11. Mushahar

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