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training up

training up is the present participle and gerund of train up.

Meaning of train up

Verb

train up (third-person singular simple present trains up, present participle training up, simple past and past participle trained up)

  1. (transitive) To train or educate.
    • “I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boy after my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become...2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

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What is training up the present participle and gerund of?
Training up is the present participle and gerund of train up.

Words near training up in the dictionary

  1. training school
  2. training ship
  3. training ships
  4. training shoe
  5. training shoes
  6. training up
  7. training wall
  8. training walls
  9. training wheel
  10. training wheels
  11. trainings

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