"suit up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: suits up [present, singular, third-person], suiting up [participle, present], suited up [participle, past], suited up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} suit up (third-person singular simple present suits up, present participle suiting up, simple past and past participle suited up)
  1. (intransitive) To don a suit, such as a spacesuit, a formal suit, a hazmat suit, or (archetypally or figuratively) a suit of armour. Tags: intransitive Related terms: bundle up, lawyer up, layer up, mask up
    Sense id: en-suit_up-en-verb-yTtZUCjd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 93 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6
  2. (transitive) To clothe, to put clothes on (someone). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-suit_up-en-verb-IOuffQ-D Categories (other): Clothing Disambiguation of Clothing: 33 67

Inflected forms

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