Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To raise to the same level or status; to improve so as to make as good as others.

    Near-synonym: step up

    The government promises to level up the department.

  2. (UK, specific)To reduce economic and developmental inequalities across the United Kingdom.

  3. (ambitransitive)To progress to the next level of player character stats and abilities, often by acquiring experience points in role-playing games.

    I leveled up after defeating the dragon.

    aufstufen, aufleveln

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom doesn't age. He just levels up.

    Том не старіє. Він просто переходить на наступний рівень.

    ruТом не стареет, он лишь прибавляет в уровне.

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  2. I have enough experience points to level up.

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  3. Mark needs to level up his vocabulary.

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  4. My glucose levels went up.

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  5. Tom levelled up.

    deTom ist eine Stufe aufgestiegen.

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Translations

7 languages
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Origin

From level + up. The video game sense is a calque of Japanese レベルアップ (reberu appu) using t

From level + up. The video game sense is a calque of Japanese レベルアップ (reberu appu) using the SOV word order.

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Forms

levels up, leveling up, leveled up, leveled up
Base formlevel up · to level up
3rd person singularlevels up
Present participleleveling up
Past simpleleveled up / levelled up
Past participleleveled up / levelled up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylevel up
he, she, itlevels up

Past simpleLesson

all personsleveled up

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill level up

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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