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FORK UP

Pronunciation (US):

• FORK UP (verb)
The verb FORK UP has 1 sense:

1. to surrender someone or something to another

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

• FORK UP (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

To surrender someone or something to another

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

fork out; fork over; fork up; hand over; turn in; deliver; get in; render

Context examples:

the guard delivered the criminal to the police / render up the prisoners / render the town to the enemy / fork over the money

Hypernyms (to "fork up" is one way to...):

give; hand; pass; pass on; reach; turn over (place into the hands or custody of)

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

bail (deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period)

give away (formally hand over to the bridegroom in marriage; of a bride by her father)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody

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Useful links:
Meaning of give
Pronunciation of pass on
Meaning of reach
Pronunciation of turn over
Meaning of bail

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