LACE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lace up mean? 

• LACE UP (verb)
  The verb LACE UP has 1 sense:

1. draw through eyes or holes

  Familiarity information: LACE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw through eyes or holes

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lace; lace up

Context example:

lace the shoelaces

Hypernyms (to "lace up" is one way to...):

bind; tie (fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord)

"Lace up" entails doing...:

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lace up"):

relace (lace again)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

She could not enter the house again, could not be in the same room to which she had with such vain artifice retreated three months ago, to lace up her boot, without recollecting.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)