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Top up meaning

Top up is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to add liquid until a partly filled container becomes full.

Past simple
topped up
Past participle
topped up
-ing form
topping up

What top up means

fill partly full containerB2

To add liquid until a partly filled container becomes full

Could you top my glass up with water?

1 more meaning of top up is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.

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Similar phrasal verbs

With top: top out, top off.

With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.

Common questions

What does top up mean?

It has 2 meanings. One of them is to add liquid until a partly filled container becomes full. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.

What is the past tense of top up?

Topped up, which is also its past participle.

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