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upboosts

upboosts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upboost.

Meaning of upboost

Verb

upboost (third-person singular simple present upboosts, present participle upboosting, simple past and past participle upboosted)

  1. (rare, transitive) to boost up
    • A few boostings are percieved^([sic]) as upboostings, but are realized in such a way that the auditively upboosted syllable is placed below the surrounding stressed syllables, and acoustically looks more like a downboosting, see fig. 11.1995, Jørgen Rischel, Hans Basbøll, Aspects of Danish prosody

Questions about upboosts

What is upboosts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upboosts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upboost.

Words near upboosts in the dictionary

  1. upboil
  2. upboiled
  3. upboiling
  4. upboils
  5. upboost
  6. upboosts
  7. upbore
  8. upborne
  9. upbound
  10. upbounden
  11. upbow

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