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Meaning of color up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To blush (to go red).
  2. To exchange a high number of low-value chips (of one color) for a lower number of higher value (of a different color), but keeping the same overall value.

Examples

“Alice had already begun to colour up and was beginning to speak, when her Ladyship perceiving her displeasure, continued thus.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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