Meanings
verbscience up (third-person singular simple present sciences up, present participle sciencing up, simple past and past participle scienced up)
present singular third person sciences up · participle present sciencing up · participle past scienced up · past scienced up
- informaltransitiveTo develop or create in a scientific way
That is the calibre of person who, in the age of express delivery, is working on sciencing-up the plain cardboard box.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
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science up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/science%20up
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“science up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/science%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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