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reckons up

reckons up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reckon up.

Meaning of reckon up

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...
  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.

Questions about reckons up

What is reckons up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Reckons up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of reckon up.

Words near reckons up in the dictionary

  1. reckonmasters
  2. reckons
  3. reckons for
  4. reckons on
  5. reckons out
  6. reckons up
  7. reckons upon
  8. reckons with
  9. reckons without
  10. reckons without one's host
  11. recks

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