Up
Meanings and phrases
adj.
- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
- getting higher or more vigorous; improving
- out of bed; astir
- extending or moving toward a higher place; upward
- (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness
- open
- (used of computers) operating properly
- used up
adv.
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; upwards; upward; upwardly
- to a higher intensity
- nearer to the speaker
- to a more central or a more northerly place
- to a later time; upwards; upward
v.
- raise
v.
- misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way; carry on
- make itself felt as a recurring pain
v.
- develop into; come; amount
- determine the sum of; total; tot; tot up; sum; sum up; summate; tote up; add; add together; tally
- be reasonable or logical or comprehensible; make sense
- add up in number or quantity; total; number; come; amount
v.
- cancel or discharge a debt; pay up; pay
v.
- move backwards from a certain position; back off; back down
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; support
- establish as valid or genuine; back
- make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
- become or cause to become obstructed; clog; choke off; clog up; congest; choke; foul
- He was called back up during the end of the season.
- They would then get back up, and the group would leave.
- These being monastic sites dating back up to 1500 years.
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; screw up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; louse up; foul up; mess up; fuck up
v.
- damage or destroy as if by violence; smash up; smash
- make pregnant; impregnate; knock up; prang up
v.
- endure cheerfully
v.
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; beat; work over
- gather; drum up; rally
v.
- make strong or stronger; strengthen; fortify
v.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; close up; clam up; dummy up; shut up; button up; be quiet; keep mum
v.
- burn brightly; flare; flame up; burn up
v.
- render unsuitable for passage; barricade; block; blockade; stop; block off; bar
v.
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy; explode; detonate; set off
- make large; enlarge; magnify
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction; detonate; explode
- add details to; embroider; pad; lard; embellish; aggrandize; aggrandise; dramatize; dramatise
- get very angry and fly into a rage; flip one's lid; throw a fit; hit the roof; hit the ceiling; have kittens; have a fit; combust; blow one's stack; fly off the handle; flip one's wig; lose one's temper; blow a fuse; go ballistic
- exaggerate or make bigger; inflate; expand; amplify
- fill with gas or air; inflate
- to swell or cause to enlarge,; puff; puff up; puff out
n.
- a severe rebuke; berating
v.
- cover with wooden boards
v.
- originate or come into being; arise; come up
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; screw up; ball up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; louse up; foul up; mess up; fuck up
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; screw up; ball up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bobble; mishandle; louse up; foul up; mess up; fuck up
v.
- support and strengthen; bolster
v.
- load an aircraft with bombs
v.
- study intensively, as before an exam; cram; grind away; drum; swot; get up; mug up; swot up; bone
v.
- book all available places or tickets
v.
- push upward
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; muff; blow; flub; screw up; ball up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; louse up; foul up; mess up; fuck up
v.
- control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior; inhibit; suppress
adj.
- closely or inseparably connected or associated with
- deeply devoted to; wrapped up
v.
- enclose or confine as if in a box; box in
v.
- make secure underneath; undergird
v.
- to cause to separate and go in different directions; disperse; dissipate; dispel; scatter
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; separate; part; split up; split; break
- come apart
- break violently or noisily; smash; crash; break apart
- cause to go into a solution; dissolve; resolve
- make a break in; interrupt; disrupt; cut off
- close at the end of a session; adjourn; recess
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items; break
- break or cause to break into pieces; fragment; fragmentize; fragmentise
- cause to separate; disperse; scatter
- laugh unrestrainedly; crack up
- release ice; calve
- suffer a nervous breakdown; crack up; crack; crock up; collapse
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts; decompose; break down
- take apart into its constituent pieces; disassemble; dismantle; take apart; break apart
- come to an end; dissolve
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up; dissolve
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; pick
- set or keep apart; sever
- Police were again called to break up the protest.
- In the end, Aspen decides to break up with America.
- So, Vincent suggests that they should just break up.
v.
- wall up with brick; brick in; brick over
v.
- show anger or indignation; bristle at; bridle at; bristle up
v.
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; raise; conjure; conjure up; invoke; evoke; stir; call down; arouse; put forward; call forth
- bring up; rear; raise; nurture; parent
- promote from a lower position or rank
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- raise from a lower to a higher position; raise; lift; elevate; get up
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; boot; reboot
- make reference to; mention; advert; cite; name; refer
- put forward for consideration or discussion; raise
n.
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; breeding; fostering; fosterage; nurture; raising; rearing; upbringing
v.
- become brisk; brisk; brisken
v.
- show anger or indignation; bristle at; bridle at; bridle up
v.
- refresh one's memory; review; refresh
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; polish; round; round off; polish up
v.
- move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; intumesce
v.
- gain courage; take heart
adj.
- inspired with confidence; encouraged
v.
- enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
- form or accumulate steadily; work up; build; progress
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation; arm; fortify; gird
- bolster or strengthen; work up; build; ramp up
- change the use of and make available or usable; develop
- and started to build up their fanbase in Finland.
- Around permanent ice began to build up on Antactica.
- He also helped build up Sturmey Archer Gears.
v.
- increase or raise
v.
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster; bunch; bundle; cluster; clump
- form into a bunch; bunch together; bunch
v.
- make into a bundle; bundle; roll up
- dress warmly
v.
- become more cheerful; lighten; lighten up
- keep afloat; buoy
- make more cheerful; lighten; lighten up
v.
- burn brightly; flare; flame up; blaze up
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire; burn down; go up
- use up (energy); burn off; burn
v.
- smash or break forcefully; wreck; wrack
v.
- flatter with the intention of getting something; brown-nose
v.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; close up; clam up; dummy up; shut up; belt up; be quiet; keep mum
v.
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies; take over; buy out
n.
- an order to report for military duty
v.
- bring forward for consideration; bring forward
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; call; telephone; phone; ring
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; remember; retrieve; recall; call back; recollect; think
- call to arms; of military personnel; mobilize; mobilise; rally
v.
- separate into parts or portions; divide; split; split up; separate; dissever
v.
- reach the point where one should be after a delay
- learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened
- They catch up to their targets in the Projects.
- He would catch up to the couple in episode 6.
- faster electrons catch up with slower ones.
v.
- catch up with and possibly overtake; overtake; catch
- make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point; make up
adj.
- having become involved involuntarily
- The trauma, the battling we all got caught up in.
- Of late prawn farming has caught up with the place.
- Arm troubles soon caught up with Perkowski, though.
v.
- tie up with chains
v.
- accumulate as a debt; run up
- keep score, as in games; tally
v.
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; agitate; rouse; turn on; charge; commove; excite
v.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; flirt; dally; butterfly; coquet; coquette; romance; philander; mash
- talk to someone with the aim of persuading him
v.
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition; check; look into; check out; suss out; check over; go over; check into
v.
- cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful; cheer; jolly along; jolly up
- become cheerful; cheer; chirk up
v.
- censure severely or angrily; call on the carpet; take to task; rebuke; rag; trounce; reproof; lecture; reprimand; jaw; dress down; call down; scold; chide; berate; bawl out; remonstrate; chew out; have words; lambaste; lambast
v.
- raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar; chin
v.
- become cheerful; cheer; cheer up
v.
- crowd or pack to capacity; jam; jampack; ram; cram; wad
v.
- obstruct; stuff; lug; block
v.
- form sides, as for a game
v.
- cut into pieces; chop
v.
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; drop out; give up; fall by the wayside; drop by the wayside; throw in; throw in the towel; quit
v.
- become friends; act friendly towards; pal; pal up
v.
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; disgust; revolt; nauseate; sicken
v.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; close up; dummy up; shut up; belt up; button up; be quiet; keep mum
v.
- make hastily and carelessly; clap together; slap together
v.
- put (things or places) in order; tidy; tidy up; neaten; straighten; straighten out; square away
- make a big profit; often in a short period of time
- dispose of
- make oneself clean, presentable or neat
- Evrell first task was to clean up the knife range.
- The two reconcile and clean up the Quick Stop.
- The rest of the girls must clean up the house.
v.
- make clear and (more) comprehensible; clarify; elucidate
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; clear
- finish a task completely; get through; wrap up; finish off; mop up; polish off; finish up
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; clear; shed light on; crystallize; crystallise; crystalize; crystalise; straighten out; sort out; enlighten; illuminate; elucidate
- become clear; clear; light up; brighten
v.
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress; climb; mount; go up
- appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; ascend
- rise in rank or status; rise; jump
v.
- record a distance travelled; on planes and cars; log up
v.
- become or cause to become obstructed; clog; choke off; back up; congest; choke; foul
adv.
- very close; at close range
v.
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating; close; fold; shut down; close down
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of; close
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; clam up; dummy up; shut up; belt up; button up; be quiet; keep mum
- block passage through; obstruct; obturate; impede; occlude; jam; block
v.
- become covered with clouds; overcloud; cloud over
n.
- the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky; clouding
v.
- fill a space in a disorderly way; clutter
v.
- put together hastily; cobble together
v.
- raise; prick up; prick
v.
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- result or issue; arise
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; come
- come to the surface; surface; rise up; rise
- originate or come into being; arise; bob up
- move upward; rise; lift; arise; move up; go up; uprise
- be mentioned
- start running, functioning, or operating; go on; come on
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose; line up; get hold; find
- gather or bring together; muster; rally; summon; muster up
- come up, of celestial bodies; rise; uprise; ascend
- gather (money or other resources) together over time; scrape; scrape up; scratch
- Rumors and things come up, it's just ridiculous.
- You come up with a big prep school reputation.
- Sakall) to come up to Maine and see the theater group.
v.
- speak to someone; address; accost
v.
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; raise; conjure; invoke; evoke; stir; call down; arouse; bring up; put forward; call forth
v.
- prepare or cook by mixing ingredients; concoct
- make up something artificial or untrue; fabricate; manufacture; make up; invent
v.
- confine in or as if in a coop; coop in
v.
- close a bottle with a cork; cork
v.
- ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; cozy up; shine up; play up; sidle up; suck up
v.
- give reluctantly; pony up; spit up
- discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth; expectorate; cough out; spit up; spit out
n.
- the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing
v.
- link together; couple; couple on
v.
- hide from view or knowledge; cover
- Miriam is enraged that he used her in his cover up.
- Snow, is honest and is not part of the cover up.
- Toni sacrifices himself in order to cover up for her.
v.
- ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; cotton up; shine up; play up; sidle up; suck up
v.
- suffer a nervous breakdown; crack; crock up; break up; collapse
- laugh unrestrainedly; break up
- rhapsodize about
v.
- start by cranking; crank
- rotate with a crank; crank
v.
- become obstructed or chocked up
v.
- advance stealthily or unnoticed; sneak up
v.
- suffer a nervous breakdown; crack up; crack; break up; collapse
v.
- appear suddenly or unexpectedly; pop up; pop
v.
- shape one's body into a curl; curl; draw in
adj.
- cut into pieces
v.
- cut to pieces; carve
- destroy or injure severely; mutilate; mangle
- separate into isolated compartments or categories; compartmentalize; compartmentalise
- significantly cut up a manuscript; hack
v.
- obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; dam
v.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; overdress; dress up; fig out; fig up; gussy up; fancy up; trick up; deck out; trick out; prink; attire; get up; rig out; tog up; tog out
v.
- find by digging in the ground; excavate; turn up
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging; dig; dig out
n.
- the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried; exhumation; disinterment
v.
- provide (usually but not necessarily food); serve; serve up; dish out; dish
adj.
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose; divided; shared; shared out
v.
- give out as one's portion or share; share; portion out; apportion; deal
v.
- wrap for decorative purposes
- use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.; doll up; pretty up; glam up
v.
- alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; sophisticate; doctor
v.
- use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.; do up; pretty up; glam up
adj.
- dressed in fancy or formal clothing; dressed; dressed-up; dressed to the nines; dressed to kill; spruced up; spiffed up; togged up
v.
- give a narcotic to; dope
v.
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; double over; double
- share a room or a bed designed for only one person
- stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager; parlay
v.
- mention something unpleasant from the past; dredge up
v.
- form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers
- straighten oneself; pull up; straighten up
- cause (a vehicle) to stop; pull up
- make up plans or basic details for; frame; compose
- come to a halt after driving somewhere; pull up; haul up
v.
- devise or invent; think up; think of; hatch; concoct
v.
- mention something unpleasant from the past; drag up
v.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; overdress; fig out; fig up; deck up; gussy up; fancy up; trick up; deck out; trick out; prink; attire; get up; rig out; tog up; tog out
- make something appear superficially attractive; window-dress
- put a caparison on; caparison; bard; barde
- dress in a costume; costume
- dress in a certain manner; dress
v.
- drink to the last drop; drain the cup
v.
- approach while driving
v.
- gather; beat up; rally
v.
- lose water or moisture; exsiccate; dehydrate; desiccate
- dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; mummify
n.
- the process of extracting moisture; dehydration; desiccation; evaporation
v.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; close up; clam up; shut up; belt up; button up; be quiet; keep mum
- make a dummy of; dummy
v.
- block with earth, as after a landslide; land up
v.
- become less intense; ease off; slacken off; flag
- move in order to make room for someone for something; move over; give way; give; yield
- reduce pressure or intensity; ease off; let up
v.
- finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; finish; polish off
- use up (resources or materials); consume; use up; eat; deplete; exhaust; run through; wipe out
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; immerse; swallow; swallow up; bury
v.
- push one's way into (a space); edge in
v.
- finally be or do something; finish up; land up; fetch up; wind up; finish
- Then they both pass out and end up in hospital beds.
- Sebbe and Sofie end up alone and drunk in a bedroom.
- Penha, Cida and Rosario end up in jail for contempt.
v.
- adjust for; compensate; counterbalance; correct; make up; even out; even off
- even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing; square up; jog
v.
- deal with (something unpleasant) head on; confront; face
v.
- bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; faggot; fagot
v.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; overdress; dress up; fig out; fig up; deck up; gussy up; trick up; deck out; trick out; prink; attire; get up; rig out; tog up; tog out
v.
- make fat or plump; fatten; fat; flesh out; fill out; plump; plump out; fatten out
adj.
- having a strong distaste from surfeit; disgusted; sick; sick of; tired of
v.
- change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; felt; mat up; matt-up; matte up; matte; mat
v.
- admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; make a clean breast of; own up
v.
- finally be or do something; finish up; land up; end up; wind up; finish
v.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; overdress; dress up; fig out; deck up; gussy up; fancy up; trick up; deck out; trick out; prink; attire; get up; rig out; tog up; tog out
v.
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense; fill; make full
- become full; fill
- fill or stop up; close
- eat until one is sated; fill
v.
- finally be or do something; land up; fetch up; end up; wind up; finish
- finish a task completely; get through; wrap up; finish off; mop up; polish off; clear up
v.
- arouse or excite feelings and passions; inflame; stir up; wake; ignite; heat
- begin to smoke; light up; light
v.
- arrange firmly
v.
- find (something or someone) for
- make arrangements for; arrange
v.
- burn brightly; flare; blaze up; burn up
v.
- erupt or intensify suddenly; erupt; irrupt; flare; break open; burst out
- ignite quickly and suddenly, especially after having died down
v.
- make fuller by shaking; plump up; shake up
v.
- get foggy
v.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other; fold; turn up
- become folded or folded up; fold
v.
- pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue; follow through; follow out; carry out; implement; put through; go through
- increase the effectiveness or success of by further action
- It is a follow up on the previous Spinner vehicle.
- That night, the Germans launched a follow up effort.
- A follow up programme was screened in December 2008.
v.
- carry further or advance; pursue; act on
v.
- add a column of numbers; foot
v.
- to surrender someone or something to another; hand over; fork over; fork out; turn in; deliver; render
v.
- gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense; fort
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; screw up; ball up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; louse up; mess up; fuck up
v.
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together; frame
v.
- become or make oneself fresh again; freshen; refresh; refreshen
- make brighter and prettier; refurbish; renovate
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; screw up; ball up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; louse up; foul up; mess up
v.
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; repair; mend; fix; bushel; doctor; restore; touch on
v.
- act as an organized group; gang
v.
- fill with gasoline
v.
- take and lift upward; pick up; lift up
- gather or collect; collect; pick up; call for
v.
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; fix; prepare; set up; ready; set
v.
- rise to one's feet; arise; rise; uprise; stand up
- get up and out of bed; turn out; arise; uprise; rise
- raise from a lower to a higher position; raise; lift; elevate; bring up
- cause to rise
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; overdress; dress up; fig out; fig up; deck up; gussy up; fancy up; trick up; deck out; trick out; prink; attire; rig out; tog up; tog out
- develop; work up
- study intensively, as before an exam; cram; grind away; drum; bone up; swot; mug up; swot up; bone
- arrange by systematic planning and united effort; organize; organise; prepare; devise; machinate
v.
- make more interesting or lively; jazz up; juice up; pep up
v.
- lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; forfeit; throw overboard; waive; forgo; forego
- give up with the intent of never claiming again; abandon
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; drop out; fall by the wayside; drop by the wayside; throw in; throw in the towel; quit; chuck up the sponge
- put an end to a state or an activity; discontinue; stop; cease; quit; lay off
- part with a possession or right; release; relinquish; resign; free
- give up what is not strictly needed; spare; part with; dispense with
- stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; abandon
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another; surrender
- relinquish possession or control over; surrender; cede; deliver
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; vacate; resign; renounce
- allow the other (baseball) team to score; allow
- stop consuming; kick
- But Agassiz refused to give up hope for the mines.
- Bill Ford Jr. refused to give up his chairmanship.
- Someday they will make it if they don’t give up."
n.
- a verbal act of admitting defeat; yielding; surrender
- the act of forsaking; forsaking
- He lasted only three innings giving up four runs.
- He pitched 11 innings, giving up 17 hits and 12 runs.
- St. Louis scored 133 runs while giving up 85.
v.
- use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.; doll up; do up; pretty up
v.
- move upward; rise; lift; arise; move up; come up; uprise
- increase in value or to a higher point; rise; climb
- move towards; approach; near; come on; draw near; draw close; come near
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress; climb; climb up; mount
- be erected, built, or constructed
- burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire; burn down; burn up
- travel up,; ascend
- You would go up to him and say "We have no water".
- That threshold would go up to 50% by the year 2030.
- By the 1890s, Maling had decided to go up market.
v.
- eat a large amount of food quickly; garbage down; shovel in; bolt down
v.
- become an adult
- It can grow up to 1.5 metres tall in a bushy form.
- The plants grow up to about high and in diameter.
- If anyone can get Pell to grow up, it is the major.
v.
- dig up; grub out
v.
- stick together as if with gum
v.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; overdress; dress up; fig out; fig up; deck up; fancy up; trick up; deck out; trick out; prink; attire; get up; rig out; tog up; tog out
v.
- exaggerate one's acting; overact; ham; overplay
v.
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended; hang
- interrupt a telephone conversation
adj.
- not having enough money to pay for necessities; impecunious; in straitened circumstances; penniless; penurious; pinched
v.
- come to a halt after driving somewhere; draw up; pull up
v.
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel; head
v.
- arrange into piles or stacks; pile up; stack up
v.
- gain heat or get hot; heat; hot up
- make hot or hotter; heat
- make more intense; hot up; screw up
adj.
- made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); heated; het; het up
v.
- lift or elevate; heave; heft; heft up
v.
- lift or elevate; heave; heave up; heft
adj.
- made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); heated; heated up; het
- worked up emotionally by anger or excitement
adv.
- at a great altitude; high
adv.
- in or to a place that is higher; above; in a higher place; to a higher place
v.
- pull up; hitch up
- increase; hike; boost
v.
- become drunk or drink excessively; souse; soak; inebriate
v.
- pull up; hike up
v.
- save up as for future use; hoard; stash; cache; lay away; squirrel away
v.
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of; hold; support; sustain
- cause to be slowed down or delayed; delay; detain
- hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration
- rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat; stick up
- continue to live through hardship or adversity; survive; last; live; live on; go; endure; hold out
- resist or confront with resistance; defy; withstand; hold
- resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; stand up; hold water
v.
- sleep during winter; hibernate
- remain secluded or in hiding
- score a hole in one
v.
- connect or link
v.
- take in marriage; marry; get married; wed; conjoin; get hitched with; espouse
v.
- make more powerful; soup up; hot up
v.
- gain heat or get hot; heat; heat up
- make more intense; heat up; screw up
- make more powerful; soup up; hop up
v.
- cause to be quiet or not talk; hush; quieten; silence; still; shut up
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; whitewash; gloss over; sleek over
v.
- get excited or stimulated; psych up
v.
- become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window; frost over; ice over
v.
- lift with a special device; jack
v.
- make more interesting or lively; juice up; pep up; ginger up
v.
- cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful; cheer; cheer up; jolly along
v.
- make more interesting or lively; jazz up; pep up; ginger up
n.
- jumping in one spot (as in excitement)
v.
- maintain a required pace or level
- lengthen or extend in duration or space; prolong; sustain
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; conserve; preserve; maintain
- keep informed; keep abreast; follow
- prevent from going to bed at night
- The dish was served cold and could keep up to a month.
- To keep up the pretense, all the crew remained below deck.
- To keep up her father's prestige she performs the marriage.
adj.
- kept in good condition; maintained; well-kept
n.
- raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand
v.
- cause to rise by kicking
- evoke or provoke to appear or occur; provoke; evoke; call forth
v.
- curl tightly; crimp; crape; frizzle; frizz; kink
v.
- supply with a set of articles or tools; kit out; kit
v.
- make pregnant; impregnate; bang up; prang up
v.
- draw through eyes or holes; lace
adj.
- ill and usually confined
- "Spartan" was laid up and then broken up in 1822.
- The ship is currently laid up and in reserve status.
- In 1812, HMS "Topaze" was laid up at Portsmouth.
v.
- finally be or do something; finish up; fetch up; end up; wind up; finish
- block with earth, as after a landslide; earth up
v.
- take up with the tongue; lap; lick
v.
- disable or confine, as with an illness
v.
- set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for; initiate
v.
- become less in amount or intensity; abate; slack off; slack; die away
- reduce pressure or intensity; ease up; ease off
v.
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; elate; uplift; pick up; intoxicate
- take and lift upward; pick up; gather up
v.
- make lighter or brighter; light; illume; illumine; illuminate
- start to burn with a bright flame
- become clear; clear up; clear; brighten
- ignite
- begin to smoke; fire up; light
v.
- make lighter or brighter; brighten; lighten
- make more cheerful; lighten; buoy up
- become more cheerful; lighten; buoy up
- become lighter; lighten
v.
- attach the limber; limber
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity; warm up; loosen up
v.
- form a line
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; align; aline; adjust
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose; get hold; come up; find
- form a queue, form a line, stand in line; queue up; queue
- arrange in ranks; dress
- take one's position before a kick-off
- The original line up formed sometime around 2006.
- They may also line up to tip popular performers.
- All the detected edge points would line up as edges.
v.
- make a logical or causal connection; associate; tie in; relate; link; colligate; connect
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; connect; link; tie
- be or become joined or united or linked; connect; link; join; unite
v.
- enjoy oneself
v.
- meet the requirements or expectations of; satisfy; fulfill; fulfil
v.
- make lively; enliven; liven; invigorate; animate
v.
- fill or place a load on; load; lade; laden
v.
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; lock in; lock away; lock; put away; shut up; shut away
- secure by locking
v.
- record a distance travelled; on planes and cars; clock up
v.
- seek information from; consult; refer
v.
- feel admiration for; admire
v.
- cause to become unblocked; unstuff
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity; limber up; warm up
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; relax; unbend; unwind; decompress; slow down
- cause to feel relaxed; relax; unstrain; unlax; unwind; make relaxed
- become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner; relax
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; screw up; ball up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; foul up; mess up; fuck up
v.
- form or compose; constitute; represent; comprise; be
- devise or compose
- do or give something to somebody in return; pay; pay off; compensate
- make up something artificial or untrue; fabricate; manufacture; cook up; invent
- put in order or neaten; make
- make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point; catch up with
- adjust for; compensate; counterbalance; correct; even out; even off; even up
- apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
- come to terms; reconcile; patch up; conciliate; settle
- The Chippewa alone make up 0.8% of the population.
- He would make up songs and sing them all day long.
- Together they make up 13,735 acres of surface area.
v.
- reach, make, or come to a decision about something; decide; determine
v.
- increase the price of
v.
- change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; felt; felt up; matt-up; matte up; matte; mat
v.
- change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; felt; felt up; mat up; matt-up; matte; mat
v.
- prove capable or fit; meet requirements; qualify
v.
- meet with by appointment
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; screw up; ball up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; louse up; foul up; fuck up
- make a mess of or create disorder in; mess
- disturb the smoothness of; ruffle; ruffle up; rumple
v.
- assemble without order or sense; jumble; confuse
- cause to be perplexed or confounded; stump
v.
- construct a model of; model
n.
- a concluding action; completion; culmination; closing; windup
v.
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop; wipe up; mop
- finish a task completely; get through; wrap up; finish off; polish off; clear up; finish up
- defeat thoroughly; worst; pip; whip; rack up
v.
- get up on the back of; hop on; mount; get on; jump on; climb on; bestride
v.
- move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great; ascend; rise
- move upward; rise; lift; arise; go up; come up; uprise
- Promoted clubs tend to move up to London 3 Essex.
- Torbert ordered the rest of his division to move up.
- He vacated the title to move up to lightweight.
v.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; screw up; ball up; spoil; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; louse up; foul up; mess up; fuck up
- soil with mud, muck, or mire; mire; muck; mud
v.
- dirty with mud; muddy
v.
- study intensively, as before an exam; cram; grind away; drum; bone up; swot; get up; swot up; bone
v.
- gather or bring together; muster; rally; summon; come up
v.
- present as an act of worship; offer
v.
- cause to open or to become open; open
- make available; open
- become available; open
- open up an area or prepare a way; pioneer
- start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning; open
- become open; open
- talk freely and without inhibition
- The claim is made that super grids open up markets.
- Therefore, let him open up the flesh and remove them.
- He's the kind where you open up and do all the talking.
v.
- admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; make a clean breast of; fess up
v.
- become friends; act friendly towards; pal; chum up
v.
- refuse to accept; refuse; reject; turn down; decline
- fail to acknowledge
v.
- mend by putting a patch on; patch
- come to terms; reconcile; make up; conciliate; settle
v.
- cancel or discharge a debt; ante up; pay
v.
- confine in a fold, like sheep; fold
v.
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; cheer; root on; inspire; urge; barrack; urge on; exhort
- make more interesting or lively; jazz up; juice up; ginger up
v.
- gain or regain energy; perk; percolate; pick up; gain vigor
- cause to be alert and energetic; stimulate; arouse; brace; energize; energise
adj.
- made or become more cheerful or lively
v.
- take and lift upward; lift up; gather up
- take up by hand
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- gather or collect; collect; gather up; call for
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; learn; hear; get word; get wind; find out; get a line; discover; see
- take into custody; collar; nail; apprehend; arrest; nab; cop
- get in addition, as an increase
- buy casually or spontaneously
- register (perceptual input); receive
- lift out or reflect from a background
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; elate; lift up; uplift; intoxicate
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- improve significantly; go from bad to good; turn around
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily; catch
- eat by pecking at, like a bird; peck
- gain or regain energy; perk up; perk; percolate; gain vigor
- Trucks began arriving to pick up scores of bodies.
- UPN declined to pick up the series after the pilot.
- This allows individuals to pick up chemical cues.
v.
- be dared to do something and attempt it; take a dare
v.
- collect or gather; accumulate; cumulate; conglomerate; gather; amass
- arrange into piles or stacks; heap up; stack up
- get or gather together; roll up; collect; accumulate; amass; compile; hoard
v.
- attach with or as if with a pin; pin down
v.
- begin to play or sing
- utter a shrill cry; shriek; shrill; pipe
v.
- move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; foreground; highlight; spotlight
- ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; cozy up; cotton up; shine up; sidle up; suck up
v.
- make fuller by shaking; fluff up; shake up
v.
- emphasize, especially by identification
v.
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state; polish; round; round off; brush up
v.
- give reluctantly; cough up; spit up
v.
- appear suddenly or unexpectedly; crop up; pop
v.
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; pound
v.
- make pregnant; impregnate; knock up; bang up
v.
- use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.; doll up; do up; glam up
v.
- raise; prick; cock up
v.
- dress primly; prim; prim out
v.
- support by placing against something solid or rigid; prop; shore up; shore
n.
- the act of propping up with shores; shoring; shoring up
v.
- get excited or stimulated; hype up
v.
- to swell or cause to enlarge,; puff; blow up; puff out
- make larger or distend
- praise extravagantly; puff
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; swell
v.
- come to a halt after driving somewhere; draw up; haul up
- straighten oneself; draw up; straighten up
- cause (a vehicle) to stop; draw up
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; extract; pull out; pull; take out; draw out
v.
- stop abruptly
v.
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in; leave; depart
adj.
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline; pumped-up; pumped; wired
v.
- push upward
- push upward; thrust
v.
- place so as to be noticed; post
- mount or put up; provide; offer
- construct, build, or erect; raise; erect; rear; set up
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant; digest; endure; stick out; stomach; bear; stand; tolerate; support; brook; abide; suffer
- preserve in a can or tin; can; tin
- make available for sale at an auction
- provide housing for; house; domiciliate
- propose as a candidate for some honor; nominate; put forward
- provide; contribute
- Temporary walls were put up until the next phase.
- Macquarie Film Corporation would put up the rest.
- The titles were put up for sale to other publishers.
v.
- form a queue, form a line, stand in line; line up; queue
v.
- move by degrees in one direction only; ratchet; ratchet down
v.
- gain points in a game; score; hit; tally
- place in a rack
- supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals)
- defeat thoroughly; worst; pip; mop up; whip
v.
- change the arrangement or position of; agitate; vex; disturb; commove; shake up; stir up
v.
- bring to light
v.
- bolster or strengthen; build up; work up; build
v.
- speed up; step up
- increase the number of rotations per minute; rev
v.
- erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure
v.
- to perform and record a sale on a cash register
v.
- tear into shreds; shred; tear up
v.
- come to the surface; surface; come up; rise
- stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; rear
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance; rebel; arise; rise
v.
- form into a cylinder by rolling; furl
- make into a bundle; bundle; bundle up
- show certain properties when being rolled; roll
- get or gather together; collect; accumulate; pile up; amass; compile; hoard
- arrive in a vehicle:
- close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle
- form a cylinder by rolling; wrap up
v.
- attach to one another, for safety
v.
- treat violently
v.
- seek out and bring together
v.
- get or find by searching; rout out
n.
- a review that refreshes your memory
v.
- become wrinkled or drawn together; pucker; ruck
v.
- disturb the smoothness of; ruffle; rumple; mess up
v.
- pile up (debts or scores)
- raise; hoist
- fasten by sewing; do needlework; sew; sew together; stitch
- accumulate as a debt; chalk up
- make by sewing together quickly
v.
- make as a net profit; net; sack; clear
v.
- accumulate money for future use; save; lay aside
v.
- increase proportionally
v.
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop; scoop; scoop out; lift out; take up
v.
- gather (money or other resources) together over time; scrape; scratch; come up
v.
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of; scratch; scrape
v.
- make more intense; heat up; hot up
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; botch; bodge; bumble; fumble; botch up; muff; blow; flub; ball up; spoil; muck up; bungle; fluff; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; bobble; mishandle; louse up; foul up; mess up; fuck up
- screw or turn higher
- twist into a strained configuration
v.
- wash thoroughly; scrub
v.
- sit on one's heels; squat; crouch; scrunch; hunker; hunker down
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; wrinkle; ruckle; crease; crinkle; scrunch; crisp
v.
- get rid of all one's merchandise; sell out; liquidize
v.
- provide (usually but not necessarily food); serve; dish out; dish up; dish
v.
- set up or found; establish; found; launch
- create by putting components or members together; assemble; piece; put together; tack; tack together
- construct, build, or erect; raise; erect; rear; put up
- get ready for a particular purpose or event; lay out; set
- put into a proper or systematic order; arrange
- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- produce; effect; effectuate
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap; ensnare; entrap; frame
- set up for use; install; instal; put in
- place; install; instal; establish
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; arrange; put; order
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; fix; prepare; ready; gear up; set
- erect and fasten; pitch
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; rig
- equip with sails or masts; rig; set
- They then set up an employment registry for women.
- Temporary shelters were also set up near Acapulco.
- In its place, she set up the micro-finance system.
v.
- give erotic character to or make more interesting; eroticize
v.
- share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple; cohabit; live together
v.
- shock physically; jar; bump around
- change the arrangement or position of; agitate; vex; disturb; commove; stir up; raise up
- make fuller by shaking; fluff up; plump up
- organize anew; reorganize; reorganise
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; stimulate; shake; excite; stir
- shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body); succuss
v.
- develop in a positive way; progress; come on; come along; advance; get on; get along
v.
- ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; cozy up; cotton up; play up; sidle up; suck up
v.
- rise dramatically
v.
- support by placing against something solid or rigid; prop up; prop; shore
n.
- the act of propping up with shores; shoring; propping up
v.
- appear or become visible; make a showing; come on; come out; turn up; surface
- be or become visible or noticeable; show
- You show up with the blues I play, you lighten up.
- The police show up and arrest her because of this.
- They show up in the sources from ancient Kashmir.
v.
- wither, as with a loss of moisture; shrivel; shrink; wither
adj.
- closely confined; pent
v.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; close up; clam up; dummy up; belt up; button up; be quiet; keep mum
- cause to be quiet or not talk; hush; quieten; silence; still; hush up
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; lock in; lock away; lock; put away; shut away; lock up
v.
- ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; cozy up; cotton up; shine up; play up; suck up
v.
- engage by written agreement; sign; contract; sign on
- join a club, an activity, etc. with the intention to join or participate,
v.
- become chocked with silt; silt
v.
- not go to bed; stay up
- change to an upright sitting position
v.
- to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; take stock; scrutinize; scrutinise
v.
- make less active or fast; slack; slacken; relax
v.
- cut into slices; slice
v.
- make neat, smart, or trim; spruce up; spruce; titivate; tittivate; smarten up; spiff up
- dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; spruce up; spruce; smarten up
adj.
- having been made especially tidy
v.
- make an error; stumble; trip up
v.
- become slow or slower; slow; slow down; slack; slacken
- lose velocity; move more slowly; decelerate; slow; slow down; retard
- cause to proceed more slowly; slow; slow down
v.
- make neat, smart, or trim; spruce up; spruce; titivate; tittivate; slick up; spiff up
- dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; spruce up; spruce; slick up
v.
- damage or destroy as if by violence; bang up; smash
v.
- cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell; stink up; stink out
v.
- get hold of or seize quickly and easily; snaffle; grab
v.
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements; snarl; embrangle
v.
- to grasp hastily or eagerly; snatch; snap
v.
- advance stealthily or unnoticed; creep up
v.
- take in, also metaphorically; absorb; suck; imbibe; sop up; suck up; draw; take in; take up
- devote (oneself) fully to; steep; immerse; engulf; plunge; engross; absorb
n.
- (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid; absorption
v.
- rise rapidly; soar; soar upwards; surge; zoom
v.
- become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; sober
- become more realistic; sober
v.
- take in, also metaphorically; absorb; suck; imbibe; soak up; suck up; draw; take in; take up
- take up as if with a sponge; take in; suck in; take up
v.
- make more powerful; hop up; hot up
v.
- express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation; opine; speak out; animadvert; sound off
- speak louder; raise one's voice
v.
- thrust up like a spear; spear
v.
- move faster; accelerate; speed; quicken
- cause to move faster; accelerate; speed
- The key was for the F-4 to keep its speed up.
- And this will speed up the transfer to renewable energy."
- STP and BPDUs help speed up convergence.
v.
- add herbs or spices to; zest; spice
- make more interesting or flavorful; spice
v.
- make neat, smart, or trim; spruce up; spruce; titivate; tittivate; smarten up; slick up
adj.
- dressed in fancy or formal clothing; dressed; dressed-up; dressed to the nines; dressed to kill; dolled up; spruced up; togged up
v.
- infuse with spirit; spirit; inspirit
v.
- give reluctantly; cough up; pony up
- discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth; expectorate; cough up; cough out; spit out
n.
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; split; stock split
- After Fila Fresh Crew split up in 1988, The D.O.C.
- Perroncito named the split up pieces "dictyosomes".
- The band subsequently split up some two years later.
v.
- become separated into pieces or fragments; break; separate; fall apart; come apart
- separate into parts or portions; divide; split; separate; dissever; carve up
- get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; divorce
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; separate; part; split; break; break up
- After Fila Fresh Crew split up in 1988, The D.O.C.
- Perroncito named the split up pieces "dictyosomes".
- The band subsequently split up some two years later.
v.
- absorb as if with a sponge
v.
- come into existence; take on form or shape; originate; arise; rise; develop; uprise; grow
v.
- make neat, smart, or trim; spruce; titivate; tittivate; smarten up; slick up; spiff up
- dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; spruce; slick up; smarten up
adj.
- dressed in fancy or formal clothing; dressed; dressed-up; dressed to the nines; dressed to kill; dolled up; spiffed up; togged up
v.
- make square; square
- settle conclusively; come to terms; settle; square off; determine
- even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing; jog; even up
v.
- arrange into piles or stacks; pile up; heap up
v.
- rise to one's feet; arise; rise; uprise; get up
- refuse to back down; remain solid under criticism or attack
- be standing; be upright; stand
- put into an upright position; stand; place upright
- defend against attack or criticism; stick up
- rise up as in fear; bristle; uprise
- resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; hold up; hold water
- I will stand up against President Obama's agenda."
- He did his stand up comedy in the Malay language.
- Green started performing stand up comedy in 2003.
v.
- get going or set in motion; start
- get off the ground; start; embark on; commence
v.
- not go to bed; sit up
v.
- increase in extent or intensity; escalate; intensify
- speed up; rev up
- make oneself visible; take action; come to the fore; step forward; come forward; step to the fore; come out
v.
- rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat; hold up
- defend against attack or criticism; stand up
v.
- cause to smell bad; fill with a bad smell; smell up; stink out
v.
- try to stir up public opinion; agitate; foment
- change the arrangement or position of; agitate; vex; disturb; commove; shake up; raise up
- arouse or excite feelings and passions; inflame; wake; ignite; heat; fire up
- provoke or stir up; incite; instigate; set off
adj.
- emotionally aroused; stimulated; stirred; aroused
v.
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use; stock; buy in
v.
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; plug; secure
adj.
- (of a nose) blocked; stopped; stopped-up
v.
- straighten oneself; draw up; pull up
v.
- start playing; sound off
- begin
v.
- kill by hanging; hang
- add as if on a string; string
v.
- take in, also metaphorically; absorb; suck; imbibe; soak up; sop up; draw; take in; take up
- ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; cozy up; cotton up; shine up; play up; sidle up
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; fawn; toady; truckle; bootlick; kowtow; kotow
v.
- give a summary (of); summarize; summarise; resume
- be a summary of; summarize; summarise; sum
- determine the sum of; total; tot; tot up; sum; summate; tote up; add; add together; tally; add up
n.
- a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court); summation; rundown
adj.
- (eggs) fried on only one side
v.
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; immerse; swallow; bury; eat up
v.
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; embroil; tangle; sweep; drag; drag in
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; espouse; embrace; adopt
v.
- expand abnormally; swell; intumesce; tumefy; tumesce
v.
- seize or catch with a swooping motion; swoop
v.
- study intensively, as before an exam; cram; grind away; drum; bone up; swot; get up; mug up; bone
v.
- pursue or resume
- adopt; latch on; fasten on; hook on; seize on
- turn one's interest to
- take up time or space
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job; start
- take up and practice as one's own; adopt; borrow; take over
- occupy or take on; assume; take; strike
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop; scoop; scoop out; lift out; scoop up
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption; sorb
- take in, also metaphorically; absorb; suck; imbibe; soak up; sop up; suck up; draw; take in
- return to a previous location or condition; resume
- accept; take in
- take up as if with a sponge; take in; sop up; suck in
- Thomas left Britain to take up a post in Calcutta.
- He also encouraged others to take up the inquiry.
- DDOT expected the work would take up to four years.
v.
- commence hostilities; go to war; take arms
adj.
- having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; haunted; obsessed; preoccupied
- This option also has not been taken up by Navarre.
- This option was never taken up by the UK government.
- However this was not taken up by later cartographers.
v.
- decorate in a cheap and flashy way
- dress up in a cheap and provocative way
v.
- form a team; team
- In "Risk", two or more players may team up against others.
- Cullen finds Elam and they team up.
- Three women team up with the common goal of marrying millionaires.
v.
- tear into shreds; shred; rip up
v.
- place on a tee; tee
- make detailed arrangements or preparations
v.
- become tense, nervous, or uneasy; tense
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; tense; strain
v.
- devise or invent; think of; dream up; hatch; concoct
v.
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit; vomit up; purge; cast; sick; cat; be sick; disgorge; regorge; retch; puke; barf; spew; spue; chuck; upchuck; honk; regurgitate
v.
- put (things or places) in order; tidy; clean up; neaten; straighten; straighten out; square away
v.
- secure with or as if with ropes; tie down; bind; truss
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock; moor; berth
- invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes
- restrain from moving or operating normally
- finish the last row; bind off
adj.
- kept occupied or engaged
- He had them handcuffed and tied up with a rope.
- This tied up the main force of Roman infantry.
- Jane and Dr. James Porter are tied up and left to die.
n.
- a worker who ties something; tier
v.
- restrict; stiffen; tighten; constrain
v.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; overdress; dress up; fig out; fig up; deck up; gussy up; fancy up; trick up; deck out; trick out; prink; attire; get up; rig out; tog out
adj.
- dressed in fancy or formal clothing; dressed; dressed-up; dressed to the nines; dressed to kill; dolled up; spruced up; spiffed up
v.
- give a healthy elasticity to; tone; strengthen
v.
- determine the sum of; total; tot; sum; sum up; summate; tote up; add; add together; tally; add up
v.
- determine the sum of; total; tot; tot up; sum; sum up; summate; add; add together; tally; add up
v.
- alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance; retouch
v.
- raise with a line; trice
- hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope; trice
v.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; overdress; dress up; fig out; fig up; deck up; gussy up; fancy up; deck out; trick out; prink; attire; get up; rig out; tog up; tog out
v.
- detect a blunder or misstep; catch
- make an error; stumble; slip up
- cause to stumble; trip
v.
- make level, square, balanced, or concentric; true
v.
- invent; concoct
v.
- adjust for (better) functioning; tune
- adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); tune
v.
- appear or become visible; make a showing; come on; come out; surface; show up
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other; fold; fold up
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; locate
- find by digging in the ground; excavate; dig up
- be shown or be found to be; prove; turn out
v.
- apply great or increased pressure; turn up the pressure
v.
- apply great or increased pressure; turn up the heat
n.
- the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes; docking; moorage; dockage
adv.
- moving backward and forward along a given course
- alternately upward and downward
- There are free shuttles up and down Skyline Blvd.
- However, in 2015, Hartlett had an up and down season.
- Nengren Temple is built along the up and down of mountains.
adv.
- in a specified area or place; over here
adj.
- very uncertain
- not yet determined
adj.
- being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge; abreast; au courant; au fait
n.
- a stable quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron
adv.
- on a floor above; upstairs; on a higher floor
adj.
- busy or occupied with
- having the requisite qualities for; adequate to; capable; equal to
adj.
- deeply involved; neck-deep; up to my neck; up to your neck; up to his neck; up to our necks; up to their necks
adj.
- deeply involved; neck-deep; up to my neck; up to your neck; up to her neck; up to our necks; up to their necks
adj.
- deeply involved; neck-deep; up to your neck; up to her neck; up to his neck; up to our necks; up to their necks
adv.
- used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; so far; thus far; hitherto; heretofore; as yet; yet; til now; until now
- prior to the present time; to date
adj.
- deeply involved; neck-deep; up to my neck; up to your neck; up to her neck; up to his neck; up to their necks
adj.
- deeply involved; neck-deep; up to my neck; up to your neck; up to her neck; up to his neck; up to our necks
adj.
- deeply involved; neck-deep; up to my neck; up to her neck; up to his neck; up to our necks; up to their necks
v.
- use up (resources or materials); consume; eat up; eat; deplete; exhaust; run through; wipe out
- require (time or space); take; occupy
n.
- the act of consuming something; consumption; expenditure
v.
- make up; vamp
- piece (something old) with a new part; vamp
v.
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit; purge; cast; sick; cat; be sick; disgorge; regorge; retch; puke; barf; spew; spue; chuck; upchuck; honk; regurgitate; throw up
v.
- cause to become awake or conscious; awaken; wake; waken; rouse; arouse
- stop sleeping; awake; arouse; awaken; wake; come alive; waken
n.
- the act of waking; awakening; wakening
v.
- enclose with a wall; wall in
v.
- run until the normal working temperature is reached
- become more friendly or open
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity; limber up; loosen up
- get warm or warmer; warm
- cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles
v.
- wash one's face and hands; lave
- wear out completely; exhaust; beat; tucker; tucker out
- carry somewhere (of water or current or waves)
- wash dishes; do the dishes
- be carried somewhere by water or as if by water
v.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); swell
v.
- prepare or cook quickly or hastily; whomp up
v.
- prepare or cook quickly or hastily; whip up
v.
- celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; revel; racket; make whoopie; make merry; make happy; jollify; wassail
v.
- finally be or do something; finish up; land up; fetch up; end up; finish
- stimulate sexually; arouse; sex; excite; turn on
- give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; wind
v.
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop; mop up; mop
v.
- get wise to
- cause someone to become aware of something
v.
- form or accumulate steadily; build up; build; progress
- develop; get up
- bolster or strengthen; build up; build; ramp up
- come up with; work out
adj.
- (of persons) excessively affected by emotion; aroused; emotional; excited
adj.
- brought to a state of great tension; aroused
- The Committee of 100 was wound up in October 1968.
- The answer to the former one wound up being correct.
- Currey wound up running 13 Truck races in 2018.
v.
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection; wrap
- clothe, as if for protection from the elements; cover
- finish a task completely; get through; finish off; mop up; polish off; clear up; finish up
- form a cylinder by rolling; roll up
adj.
- deeply devoted to; bound up
n.
- a short account of the news; report; news report; story; account
v.
- bring to public notice by writing, with praise or condemnation
- put into writing; write in complete form; write out
v.
- surrender, as a result of pressure or force
v.
- close with a zipper; zipper; zip
E.g.
- These are made up of one ascender and one tracker.
- The train sets are made up of following carriages:
- The stamps have typically been made up into coils.
E.g.
- Vera Vitali grew up in Stockholm in a film-family.
- Van Dinther grew up in the Netherlands and Sweden.
- Tjønveit grew up at Hesthagen in Grimstad, Norway.
E.g.
- 36% of all households were made up of individuals.
- 33% of all households were made up of individuals.
- 22% of all households were made up of individuals.
E.g.
- The other is picked up by Taro's classmate, Miura.
- On May 11, 2018, the network picked up the series.
- It was eventually picked up and used by the press.
E.g.
- Some say Cabañas did not die but ended up in jail.
- It ended up grossing $1,292,323 at the box office.
- He ended up redshirting after suffering an injury.
E.g.
- Chenevix-Trench took up his new post in September.
- When hundreds were arrested, locals took up arms.
- So when he died in 1704, she took up the regency.
E.g.
- He was also called up for a friendly against Peru.
- On May 11, he was called up to the major leagues.
- On May 11, 2012, Dunn was called up by the Marlins.
E.g.
- His forte was setting up cars for specific tracks.
- He is working on setting up a music school in Ningbo
- KINFRA is setting up an industrial park in Puzhakkal.
E.g.
- The would-be captors then gave up and sailed away.
- The Owls scored 107 points and gave up 498 points.
- She gave up teaching to focus on writing full-time.
E.g.
- The record company came up with the idea, I think.
- The 100th store came up at Kamala Mills in Mumbai.
- Instead Bergman came up with "The In-Laws" (1979).
E.g.
- The couple brought up three sons and two daughters.
- Smith brought up her son and daughter on her own.
- She was brought up in the town of Widnes, Cheshire.
E.g.
- The kayaker then ends up sitting flat on the dock.
- Gwen ends up unmasking which surprises her father.
- During the fighting, Marco ends up by the windows.
E.g.
- From 2013, she teamed up with Marleen van Iersel.
- Ruest teamed up with Andrew Wolfe in September 2015.
- In 2016, he teamed up again with Jason Aaaron on Dr.
E.g.
- Flashbacks show the events leading up to the murder.
- The week leading up to the game was marred by injury.
- The story leading up to the murder is told.
E.g.
- The hose is built up with rubber and steel layers.
- He built up an insect collection and a herbarium.
- Fox built up a private dental practice in London.
E.g.
- The event was broken up by police two hours later.
- "Philippines" was broken up at New Jersey in 1924.
- She was scuttled in May 1945 and broken up in 1947.
E.g.
- Lonergan also supported Richmond while growing up.
- This species is an annual grass growing up to tall.
- Scowen was born in 1987, growing up in Wokingham.
E.g.
- This led to a cat fight which Yuri Mosin broke up.
- Matranga "broke up" Onelinedrawing in August 2004.
- Empedocles "broke up the assembly of the Thousand.
E.g.
- Trail moved up the world rankings rapidly in 1997.
- This time he moved up to number 3 before exiting.
- Tony Kanaan quickly moved up to second position.
E.g.
- On June 7, 1882 a Post Office opened up in Stevens.
- They opened up for us on their first American tour".
- Lay then opened up a gambling house in Vernal, Utah.
E.g.
- This was followed up by "Beauty" in January 2005.
- It was followed up by "Copenhagen Nocturne" in 2011.
- They followed up with the EP "Count the Days".
E.g.
- The park supplies bags for picking up animal waste.
- Galway got a bye into the final without picking up a hurley.
E.g.
- However, he resigned without taking up the post.
- Bhima then, taking up a mace, rush towards Kritavarman.
- Jumping down, he rush at him, taking up sword and shield.
E.g.
- I will stand up against President Obama's agenda."
- Three tigers are going up against eleven buffaloes.
- She helps the residents rise up against these guards.
E.g.
- The brain makes up the largest portion of the CNS.
- Seafood makes up a big part of their meat dishes.
- In turn, she makes up more fake facts as a prank.
E.g.
- A new general plan for Sätra was drawn up in 1962.
- Plans drawn up for downtown's redevelopment by I.M.
- A deed of surrender was drawn up on 19 September.
E.g.
- When she wakes up, she no longer sees Alex Morgan.
- The next day, he wakes up and she is already gone.
- She wakes up, and the two characters are reunited.
E.g.
- Drake shows up that evening, seeing he's too late.
- The device shows up as a standard bluetooth device.
- Broca's aphasia shows up in some people, as well.
E.g.
- album making up the middle third of the concert.
- "People don't ask for facts in making up their minds.
- census was 19,335,377 making up 74.1% of the total population.
E.g.
- Three single authority mayors are up for election.
- All 25 seats in the Assembly were up for election.
E.g.
- Teare had worked his way up through the company.
- agent orders the team to make their way up the building.
- The two trek their way up the tower.
E.g.
- Sometimes local running competitions are held up there.
- The game was held up as he was taken off on a stretcher.
- Respectable people are held up to ridicule.
E.g.
- In 2016, he teamed up again with Jason Aaaron on Dr.
- After the lesion has drained, it fills up again.
- Calvin blames Carmel for this and they split up again.
E.g.
- Mason picks up the gun and demands the key back.
- It then picks up SR 13 before passing west of Milan.
- Basant calls after that and her father picks up.
E.g.
- He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1889.
- FaZe went up to 10-3 and Astralis had a weak buy.
- After Radley he went up to Keble College, Oxford.
E.g.
- Yaya, a Han girl was born and grown up in Xinjiang.
- After that, this business has grown up to this day.
- She came back with a more grown up and mature image.
E.g.
- Many evenings Allison showed up for work in a tuxedo.
- Myles showed up, leading Jones with a knife at his throat.
- However, Henry showed up with an army of thirty thousand men.
E.g.
- Thirty-six teams signed up for the Cup tournament.
- In 2015 it signed up to the Right2Change agreement.
- Thirteen teams signed up for the Cup tournament.
E.g.
- It was a runner up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.
- He was also the runner up at the BNP Paribas Open.
- He finished runner up to Paul Morris by one point.
E.g.
- She was sold for breaking up on 22 September 1921.
- They released two studio albums before breaking up.
- She was sold for breaking up on 23 November 1815.
E.g.
- Charlotte has given up nursing to be a housewife.
- Tea soon took over, and coffee growing was given up.
- His homer was one of only 12 given up by Lee in 2008.
E.g.
- The titles were put up for sale to other publishers.
- The buildings were put up for sale on two occasions.
- His family put the business up for sale in 1919.
E.g.
- The Park is coming up in Mucherla near Hyderabad.
- A Reliance SEZ is also coming up in the vicinity.
- The two run but Hunter Scott is coming up fast.
E.g.
- One day they find a workshop opening up next door.
- 'A trigger-release mechanism; a way of opening up.
- This was the first step in opening up the vast interior.
E.g.
- Once married, they set up residence in Asunción.
- In 1000 the bishop of Piacenza took up residence here.
- In 1676, the couple took up residence in Ichtershausen.
E.g.
- Wire catchers were used up through the Vietnam War.
- Teare had worked his way up through the company.
- The DraCo can run AmigaOS 3.1 up through AmigaOS 3.9.
E.g.
- 4 black spores, and 4 tan spores all lined up.
- Alya once lined up to be the chairperson of "This Is Us!
- It’s all lined up for us to do pretty good.
E.g.
- On March 5, two PAVN defectors turned up at the camp.
- However, the treasure hunters turned up empty handed.
- The brim can be turned up all the way around.
E.g.
- A legend grew up around the division of the island.
- Also, long houses began showing up around this time.
- Bowman grew up around film and television production.
E.g.
- In 1990, he stepped up to British Formula Renault.
- Deputy Editor, Simon Byron, stepped up to replace him.
- However, after the scaffolding, the community stepped up.
E.g.
- In January 2016, the city put the building up for sale.
- He was also a lawyer, building up a practice in West Africa.
- Since 2037, the some classes are running on the same building up to now.
E.g.
- It takes up to 21 days for the species' to pupate.
- When a bridge is down, the ferry takes up the load.
- The work takes up the entire B-side of the album.
E.g.
- Oliver Tambo summed up thus: "Close Ranks!
- They are summed up in the tables below.
- Maynard summed up the concept as "Welcome to the new normal".
E.g.
- The team improved their record in 1996, ending up at 77–67.
- He chases Deckard through the building, ending up on the roof.
- finally proposes to Brandi, ending up with the two sharing a kiss.
E.g.
- Beavers live up to 24 years of age in the wild.
- Molluscs such as the wood snail live up the snow line.
- Elephants can live up to 70 years in the wild.
E.g.
- Zhang Zhizhong drew up a plan of burning the city.
- Seth Raynor drew up re-design plans in 1921.
- Paul M. G. Lévy drew up the exact design of the new flag.
E.g.
- The brim can be turned up all the way around.
- So it winds up all feeling like empty words.
- She became paralyzed again and doctors gave up all hope.
E.g.
- They can accommodate a vessel up to long and wide.
- These are up to long and wide, with a wavy margin.
- They can vary in size up to long and in diameter.
E.g.
- This is backed up by studies in the Midwest.
- The team is backed up by HYDRA and A.I.M.
- 2333, a reason why the government backed up from this matter.
E.g.
- An upset Malia breaks up with Darren and leaves.
- Valerie calls him a hypocrite and breaks up with him.
- This breaks up environmental impact into five stages.
E.g.
- "Gymnosporia buxifolia" grows up to 9 metres tall.
- Thus Ramu grows up accepting crime as his career.
- The burrowing anemone grows up to 8 cm in diameter.
E.g.
- Soon after he set up his own instrumentation company.
- He left and set up his own group called "Aiki no Michi".
- Bianchi, instead, set up his own office directly in Cardiff.
E.g.
- Chuck often comes up with a title for a song first.
- I can't wait to hear what Manson comes up with.
- It is here, Hazlitt finds, where Irving comes up short.
E.g.
- Sometimes, the past shows up when we least expect it.
- The petroleum engine will start up when battery power fails.
- His mother and stepfather later broke up when Rivera was 12.
E.g.
- He was called back up during the end of the season.
- He said, “I grew up during the Cultural Revolution.
- The teams finally met up during the 2013 season.
E.g.
- The connection sets up based on the user dialing.
- Jill kisses Patrick before he leaves and sets up.
- He temporarily sets up base in the Greek Embassy.
E.g.
- Bays were Championship runners up in 1993 and 1994.
- The runners up were Ashley Spencer and Austin Miller.
- with the runners up being Galway Celtic F.C.