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up-gunning

up-gunning is the present participle and gerund of up-gun.

Meaning of up-gun

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

Questions about up-gunning

What is up-gunning the present participle and gerund of?
Up-gunning is the present participle and gerund of up-gun.

Words near up-gunning in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up-gunning (page history and authors); up-gun (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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