fasten up

verb

To fasten or attach

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Meanings

verbfasten up (third-person singular simple present fastens up, present participle fastening up, simple past and past participle fastened up)

present singular third person fastens up · participle present fastening up · participle past fastened up · past fastened up

  1. transitiveTo fasten or attach

    If you want to turn around, then turn around, but I shan't fasten you up.

    c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2
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APA

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MLA

“fasten up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fasten%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fasten up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fasten%20up.

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