to string up
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5.5
- phrasal verb
- /strɪŋ ʌp/
:
ensartar
- But I am going to string up a bunch of pearls first because that will be easier if I do it that way.
Examples
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I love them for stringing up tomatoes as well as things like cucumbers.
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Then Lamar remembered that on real fishing cruises, you strung up the fish like those little triangular flags at used car lots.
Fiction book (1996) -
So why don't you go on inside, you get things strung up, alright?
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OK, You're stringing up some type of candy from the ceiling.
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She decided to string up the fairy lights along the fence for the garden party.
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We spent the afternoon stringing up photos on a line to decorate the event.
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He will string up the laundry on the line to dry in the sun.
Synonyms
36
3.8
To put beads or objects onto a cord in a line
8
4.0
To join separate things or events so they become one connected thing
1
9.9
Join things together in a row, often pieces of text like words or lines
Antonyms
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'string' (to bind with cord) combined with 'up' (indicating upward motion or completion) gives a compositional sense of suspending or fastening someone upward, so a learner could infer a meaning related to hanging. However, the specific punitive/lethal sense 'to kill by hanging' is a pragmatic extension beyond merely tying or suspending and may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
String up comes from the picture of threading beads on a string. When you put small parts or memories together like beads, you 'string them up' into one sequence, so it means 'to arrange or link together'.