Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To gun the engine of a vehicle.

  2. (intransitive, transitive)To be armed with a gun or to arm with a gun.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Ziri kept yelling to have our guns up.

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  2. Tobias lifted the gun up to show Isabella that he was armed.

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Forms

guns up, gunning up, gunned up, gunned up
Base formgun up · to gun up
3rd person singularguns up
Present participlegunning up
Past simplegunned up
Past participlegunned up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygun up
he, she, itguns up

Past simpleLesson

all personsgunned up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gunned up
he, she, ithas gunned up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gun up

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gummygumptiongunA2gunfightgunfiregunk
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