button up

English

Verb

button up (third-person singular simple present buttons up, present participle buttoning up, simple past and past participle buttoned up)

1. (transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons.

   Button up your shirt cuff. It has come undone

2. (intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.

   Button up well. It's freezing outside today.

Usage notes

• The object in 1 can come before or after the particle. If it is a pronoun, then it MUST come before the particle.

Translations

to fasten with a button or buttons

• Finnish: napittaa (fi)
• Romanian: încheia (ro)

• Russian: застёгивать (ru) (zastjogivat') , застегнуть (ru) (zastegnút') 
• Spanish: abotonar (es)

to fasten all buttons to keep warm

• Finnish: laittaa napit kiinni, napittaa itsensä

• Russian: застёгиваться (ru) (zastjogivat'sja) , застегнуться (ru) (zastegnút'sja) 
• Spanish: abrocharse (es)