Word.ws English Dictionary

yellows up

yellows up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of yellow up.

Meaning of yellow up

Verb

yellow up (third-person singular simple present yellows up, present participle yellowing up, simple past and past participle yellowed up)

  1. (intransitive, literally, transitive) To become or make (something) yellow, such as a material aging, a plant leaf or fruit ripening or developing a rust disease.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To put on yellowface; to imitate or pretend to be of East Asian descent.

Questions about yellows up

What is yellows up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Yellows up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of yellow up.

Words near yellows up in the dictionary

  1. yellowrocket
  2. yellowroot
  3. yellows
  4. yellows off
  5. yellows out
  6. yellows up
  7. yellowseed
  8. yellowseeds
  9. yellowshank
  10. yellowshanks
  11. yellowshins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yellows up (page history and authors); yellow up (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yellows up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yellows_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.