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reckon up

reckon up verb: to add up; count up; compute the amount of; tally; come to an accounting of.

Verb

reckon up (third-person singular simple present reckons up, present participle reckoning up, simple past and past participle reckoned up)

  1. To add up; count up; compute the amount of; tally; come to an accounting of.
    • Of the Anabaptiſts, the ſame Author [Alexander Ross] Sect. 12. reckons up a great many different Sects, as the Mancerians, the Separatiſts, the Cathariſts, the Apoſtolicks, the Enthuſiaſts, the Silentes, the Adamites, the Liberi, the Hutites, the Melchioriſts, the Menoniſts, the Beucheldians, the...1735, [Richard Challoner], “Of [Martin] Luther’s Quarrel with Carlostadius [i.e., Andreas Karlstadt], and of the Divisions That Insued Thereupon amongst Protestants: […]”, in A Short History of the...
    • How many things are there which I ought to reckon up, that I have neglected; and how many others are there, which, if I did reckon them up, would overwhelm me with confusion. The grocer has given me a subject that I shall do well to pursue.1851, The Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, page 60
  2. (informal, transitive) To harshly criticize.
    • We reckoned him up pretty bad.
  3. (informal, transitive) To perceive (reckon) (someone or something).
    • I reckoned him up as a troublemaker at first glance.

Forms of reckon up

third-person singular presentreckons up
present participlereckoning up
past participlereckoned up
pastreckoned up

Questions about reckon up

What does reckon up mean?
Reckon up means to add up; count up; compute the amount of; tally; come to an accounting of.
What part of speech is reckon up?
Reckon up is a verb.
What is the past tense of reckon up?
The past tense of reckon up is reckoned up.

Words near reckon up in the dictionary

  1. Reckners
  2. reckon
  3. reckon for
  4. reckon on
  5. reckon out
  6. reckon up
  7. reckon upon
  8. reckon with
  9. reckon without
  10. reckon without one's host
  11. reckon'd

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