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singling up

singling up is the present participle and gerund of single up.

Meaning of single up

Verb

single up (third-person singular simple present singles up, present participle singling up, simple past and past participle singled up)

  1. To act alone.
  2. (Naval) To remove one loop of a double-loop rope connecting a ship to a pier in preparation for departure.

Questions about singling up

What is singling up the present participle and gerund of?
Singling up is the present participle and gerund of single up.

Words near singling up in the dictionary

  1. Singleys
  2. singlicate
  3. singlicates
  4. singling
  5. singling out
  6. singling up
  7. singlings
  8. singlino
  9. singlinos
  10. Singlish
  11. singlism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: singling up (page history and authors); single 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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