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check up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:most often in phrasal verb "check up on") To verify through brief investigation or revisit for assurance that there are no problems.
    • Before when he just gave her money and checked up on her his visits where few and far between unless she called and asked for something, which she didn't like doing too much. 2006, Marvlous, By Any Means, page 28:
    • I dropped by to check up on my friend.
    • Every three months, I checked up with Dr. Ma and took a blood sample test to check on my diabetic HGBA1c, glucose fasting data range, and my lipid data for my blood test results. 2015, Susaik Chu, My Search:
    • So instead she checked up on them and discovered that they were very respectable, which made her much happier. 2014, Jean Trumpington, Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir:
  2. To verify something's accuracy.
    • I hated myself, but I called up the almanac, and for the very first time ever, I checked up on something Perry had told me. 2007, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black:
    • He's checking up the figures.
    • The impression of her familiarity was misty and dreamlike. He might have dreamed he thought of such a girl as she. But no! His sober, cool-headed sense checked him up sharply. 1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg:
  3. To seem correct or plausible; to comport with known facts; to check out (with other facts).
    • The numbers she provided check up with my own data.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
checked up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
checked up Tense=Past lexicographic
checks up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
checking up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

check up on

Relateds

checkup · check-up

Translations (14)

ro verifica (to verify through examination) · de nachsehen (to verify through examination) · es revisar (to verify through examination) · hu megvizsgál (to verify through examination) · de überprüfen (to verify through examination) · fi tarkastaa (to verify through examination) · hu ellenőriz (to verify through examination) · hy ստուգել (to verify through examination) · hu utánanéz (to verify through examination) · cs zkontrolovat (to verify through examination) · fi tarkistaa (to verify through examination) · de nachschauen (to verify through examination) · ro controla (to verify through examination) · fi katsastaa (to verify through examination)