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up-guns

up-guns is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-guns

What is up-guns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Up-guns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of up-gun.

Words near up-guns in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up-guns (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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