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CHECK UP ON

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Dictionary entry overview: What does check up on mean?

• CHECK UP ON (verb)
The verb CHECK UP ON has 1 sense:

1. examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition

Familiarity information: CHECK UP ON used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHECK UP ON (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

check; check into; check out; check over; check up on; suss out; go over; look into

Context examples:

check the brakes / Check out the engine

Hypernyms (to "check up on" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvas; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "check up on"):

follow; keep an eye on; observe; watch; watch over (follow with the eyes or the mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't check up on the story

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