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sciencing up

sciencing up is the present participle and gerund of science up.

Meaning of science up

Verb

science up (third-person singular simple present sciences up, present participle sciencing up, simple past and past participle scienced up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To develop or create in a scientific way
    • That is the calibre of person who, in the age of express delivery, is working on sciencing-up the plain cardboard box.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian

Questions about sciencing up

What is sciencing up the present participle and gerund of?
Sciencing up is the present participle and gerund of science up.

Words near sciencing up in the dictionary

  1. sciencephobia
  2. sciences
  3. sciences up
  4. sciencey
  5. sciencing
  6. sciencing up
  7. sciencism
  8. sciency
  9. scienda
  10. scient
  11. scientaster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sciencing up (page history and authors); science 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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