up-gun

verb

To equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.

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Meanings

verbup-gun (third-person singular simple present up-guns, present participle up-gunning, simple past and past participle up-gunned)

present singular third person up-guns · participle present up-gunning · participle past up-gunned · past up-gunned · alternative upgun

  1. transitiveTo equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.

    Hitherto, up-gunning British tanks had been prevented because of a basic design parameter.

    2001, David French, Raising Churchill's Army

Origin

From up- + gun.

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APA

up-gun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up-gun

MLA

“up-gun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up-gun. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “up-gun,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up-gun.

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