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upgun

upgun is the alternative form 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

Forms of upgun

third-person singular presentupguns
present participleupgunning
past participleupgunned
pastupgunned

Questions about upgun

What is upgun the alternative form of?
Upgun is the alternative form of up-gun.

Words near upgun in the dictionary

  1. upgrowings
  2. upgrown
  3. upgrows
  4. upgrowth
  5. upgrowths
  6. upgun
  7. upgunned
  8. upgunning
  9. upguns
  10. upgush
  11. upgushed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upgun (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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