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read up

read up verb: to learn (about something) by reading.

Verb

read up (third-person singular simple present reads up, present participle reading up, simple past and past participle read up)

  1. (transitive) To learn (about something) by reading.
    • "Pestilential nonsense!" "Have you read it up at all, Father?" asked Enid. "Read it up! I, with all my interests and no time for one-half of them! Enid, you are too absurd." "Sorry, Father."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
    1. (intransitive) [with on or about]
      • 28 November 2009, Indian Express - Nayagan was actor R Madhavan's introduction to Kamal Hassan
        After watching the film, I read up about it in the newspapers. When I came to know that Hassan was a 30-year-old actor then, I was completely awe-struck
  2. (Internet) To read previous or higher-up messages in a chat; to backread.
    • I just got here, what are you talking about?
      — It's about the new movie announcement. Read up for the context.

Adjective

read up (comparative more read up, superlative most read up)

  1. Of an individual, well-versed or informed in a particular subject.

read up meaning in Malayalam

read up in Malayalam

on study, bone up on, mug up on
വായിച്ചുമനസ്സിലാക്കുക, വായനയിലൂടെ മനസ്സിലാക്കുക, വായിച്ചു ഗ്രഹിക്കുക, നിരന്തര വായനകൊണ്ട് അറിവു സമ്പാദിക്കുക, തീവ്രപഠനം നടത്തുക, പുസ്തകം കരണ്ടുതിന്നുക

Forms of read up

Verb
third-person singular presentreads up
present participlereading up
past participleread up
pastread up
Adjective
comparativemore read up
superlativemost read up

Questions about read up

What does read up mean?
Read up means to learn (about something) by reading.
What is read up in Malayalam?
Read up in Malayalam is വായിച്ചുമനസ്സിലാക്കുക, വായനയിലൂടെ മനസ്സിലാക്കുക, വായിച്ചു ഗ്രഹിക്കുക. See Read up meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is read up?
Read up can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of read up?
The past tense of read up is read up.

Words near read up in the dictionary

  1. read the mail
  2. read the riot act
  3. read the room
  4. read the table
  5. read through
  6. read up
  7. read-along
  8. read-alongs
  9. read-aloud
  10. read-alouds
  11. read-and-write head

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Adapted from Wiktionary: read up (page history and authors); read up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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