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powered up

powered up is the simple past and past participle of power up.

Meaning of power up

Verb

power up (third-person singular simple present powers up, present participle powering up, simple past and past participle powered up)

  1. (transitive) To turn the electrical power on to a device as a precondition to making it operational.
    • Every morning he powered up his electronic devices, even before making coffee.
  2. (intransitive) To become ready for operation as a result of the provision of electrical power.
    • The office systems power up automatically at 7:30am on workdays.

Questions about powered up

What is powered up the simple past and past participle of?
Powered up is the simple past and past participle of power up.

Words near powered up in the dictionary

  1. powered
  2. powered ahead
  3. powered down
  4. powered off
  5. powered on
  6. powered up
  7. powerful
  8. powerful number
  9. powerful numbers
  10. powerful owl
  11. powerful owls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: powered up (page history and authors); power 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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