carry up

verb

To convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.

“to carry up a wall”

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Meanings

verbcarry up (third-person singular simple present carries up, present participle carrying up, simple past and past participle carried up)

present singular third person carries up · participle present carrying up · participle past carried up · past carried up

  1. transitiveTo convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build.

    to carry up a wall

  2. transitiveTo trace back.

    Mr. Noble is unwilling to carry up the genealogy of this family to an earlier ancestry […]

    1798, British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review, volume 10, page 425
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