upped
- 1Simple past and past participle of up.
The company upped wages after the workers protested.
She upped her training as the race approached.
Note
The p doubles before -ed, as in stopped and dropped, and the form serves every use of the verb. Most often it is the colloquial past of raising a level or amount: upped the price, upped the stakes. Intransitively it appears in the up and pattern (he upped and left), where it marks a sudden, decisive action rather than any lifting. As a participle it takes have: they had upped the offer.
After ten years in the same job, she upped and moved to the coast.
He just upped and walked out in the middle of the meeting.
upped is a form of up
up, verb: To increase, or raise the level of, something. Full entry
- Spelling
- up → upped: double the p, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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