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uptaken

uptaken is the past participle of uptake.

Meaning of uptake

Verb

uptake (third-person singular simple present uptakes, present participle uptaking, simple past uptook, past participle uptaken)

  1. (archaic) To take up, to lift.
    • He hearkned to his reason, and the childe
      Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
  3. To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.

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Questions about uptaken

What is uptaken the past participle of?
Uptaken is the past participle of uptake.

Words near uptaken in the dictionary

  1. upsy-down
  2. upsy-downsy
  3. Uptain
  4. Uptains
  5. uptake
  6. uptaken
  7. uptaker
  8. uptakers
  9. uptakes
  10. uptaking
  11. uptakings

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