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train up en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To train or educate.
    • Initially, software faults delayed their introduction. Now the issue is with getting enough drivers trained up. 2025 October 1, “SWR 'Arterios' are finally on the move”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 37:
    • “I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boy after my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become a master criminal like me. One day all this could be yours.” 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
training up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trained up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trained up Tense=Past lexicographic
trains up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic