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offer up

offer up verb: to give (thanks, praise) to God.

Verb

offer up (third-person singular simple present offers up, present participle offering up, simple past and past participle offered up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To give (thanks, praise) to God.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To sacrifice.
    • After the Master Of Whisperers starts composing his written testimony about Jon being the rightful heir to the throne, Tyrion turns on his old friend and offers him up to Dany.2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019
  3. (idiomatic, transitive) To present.
    • But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport

Forms of offer up

third-person singular presentoffers up
present participleoffering up
past participleoffered up
pastoffered up

Questions about offer up

What does offer up mean?
Offer up means to give (thanks, praise) to God.
What part of speech is offer up?
Offer up is a verb.
What is the past tense of offer up?
The past tense of offer up is offered up.

Words near offer up in the dictionary

  1. offer curves
  2. offer of proof
  3. offer one can't refuse
  4. offer one's condolences
  5. offer the light
  6. offer up
  7. offer versus serve
  8. offer wanted
  9. offer'd
  10. offerable
  11. offered

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