"offer up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-offer up.ogg [Australia] Forms: offers up [present, singular, third-person], offering up [participle, present], offered up [participle, past], offered up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} offer up (third-person singular simple present offers up, present participle offering up, simple past and past participle offered up)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) to give (thanks, praise) to God Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-offer_up-en-verb-I~kTTwEP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 4 1 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 89 7 4
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) to sacrifice Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-offer_up-en-verb-SJMtVv~k
  3. (transitive, idiomatic) to present Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-offer_up-en-verb-~XHZ5XFM

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for offer up meaning in English (2.5kB)

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