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up-gun

up-gun verb: to equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.

Verb

up-gun (third-person singular simple present up-guns, present participle up-gunning, simple past and past participle up-gunned)

  1. (transitive) To equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.
    • Hitherto, up-gunning British tanks had been prevented because of a basic design parameter.2001, David French, Raising Churchill's Army

Forms of up-gun

third-person singular presentup-guns
present participleup-gunning
past participleup-gunned
pastup-gunned
alternative formupgun

Origin of up-gun

From up- + gun.

Questions about up-gun

What does up-gun mean?
Up-gun means to equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.
What part of speech is up-gun?
Up-gun is a verb.
What is the past tense of up-gun?
The past tense of up-gun is up-gunned.

Words near up-gun in the dictionary

  1. up-ends
  2. up-front
  3. up-front money
  4. up-frontness
  5. up-gaze
  6. up-gun
  7. up-gunned
  8. up-gunning
  9. up-guns
  10. up-handed
  11. up-jumped

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