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suring up

suring up is the present participle and gerund of sure up.

Meaning of sure up

Verb

sure up (third-person singular simple present sures up, present participle suring up, simple past and past participle sured up)

  1. Eggcorn of shore up.
    • means of 'reasoned' argument) not only serves to sure up the sense of certainty which people attach to their moral judgments and to the world views from which their judgements ultimately derive, it serves to sure up their sense of2002, Colin Wilks, Emotion, truth and meaning: in defense of Ayer and Stevenson, page 195

Questions about suring up

What is suring up the present participle and gerund of?
Suring up is the present participle and gerund of sure up.

Words near suring up in the dictionary

  1. Surinamese
  2. Surinameseness
  3. Surinameses
  4. surinamite
  5. Surinen
  6. suring up
  7. Suris
  8. Surita
  9. Suritas
  10. surite
  11. suritozole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suring up (page history and authors); sure 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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