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paired up

paired up is the simple past and past participle of pair up.

Meaning of pair up

Verb

pair up (third-person singular simple present pairs up, present participle pairing up, simple past and past participle paired up)

  1. (transitive) To put into pairs; to put into a group of two.
  2. (intransitive) To get into pairs; to join together to make a group of two.
    • God creates us and we pair up
      Looking for that puzzle piece2025 July 19, Pacifik, “You Could Be Better”, in Wonderfool, performed by Pacifik

Questions about paired up

What is paired up the simple past and past participle of?
Paired up is the simple past and past participle of pair up.

Words near paired up in the dictionary

  1. pairbreaking
  2. paire
  3. paired
  4. paired and shared
  5. paired off
  6. paired up
  7. paired-end tag
  8. paired-end tags
  9. pairedness
  10. pairer
  11. pairers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paired up (page history and authors); pair 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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