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sunning up

sunning up is the present participle and gerund of sun up.

Meaning of sun up

Verb

sun up (third-person singular simple present suns up, present participle sunning up, simple past and past participle sunned up)

  1. (intransitive) to sunbathe; to soak up the sun
  2. (intransitive) to become sunny or sunnier

Questions about sunning up

What is sunning up the present participle and gerund of?
Sunning up is the present participle and gerund of sun up.

Words near sunning up in the dictionary

  1. Sunniism
  2. sunnily
  3. sunniness
  4. sunninesses
  5. sunning
  6. sunning up
  7. Sunningdale
  8. Sunninghill
  9. Sunninghill and Ascot
  10. Sunniphobia
  11. Sunnis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunning up (page history and authors); sun 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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