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uptying

uptying is the present participle and gerund of uptie.

Meaning of uptie

Verb

uptie (third-person singular simple present upties, present participle uptying, simple past and past participle uptied)

  1. To tie up, fasten up.
    • Her golden lockes she roundly did vptye / In breaded tramels [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about uptying

What is uptying the present participle and gerund of?
Uptying is the present participle and gerund of uptie.

Words near uptying in the dictionary

  1. uptwirls
  2. uptwist
  3. uptwisted
  4. uptwisting
  5. uptwists
  6. uptying
  7. UPU
  8. UPUP
  9. upupa
  10. upupas
  11. upupid

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