come up
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(verb) bring forth, usually something desirable; "The committee came up with some interesting recommendations" |
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Related Words: bring forth, generate |
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(verb) be mentioned; "These names came up in the discussion" |
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Related Words: arise, come up |
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(verb) occur; "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion" |
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Synonyms: arise |
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Related Words: come about, come up, condense, go on, hap, happen, occur, open, open up, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) start running, functioning, or operating, as of lights or power |
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Synonyms: come on, go on |
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Related Words: get going, go, start |
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(verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" |
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Synonyms: come |
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Related Words: accost, address, approach, come near, come on, come up to, draw near, emanate, go, go up, locomote, move, near, travel |
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(verb) come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises" |
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Synonyms: rise |
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Related Words: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise |
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(verb) come to the surface |
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Synonyms: rise, rise up, surface |
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Related Words: ascend, bubble up, emerge, go up, resurface, swell, well |
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(verb) originate or come into being; "aquestion arose" |
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Synonyms: arise, bob up |
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Related Words: become |
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(verb) gather together over time; as of money or other resources; "She had scraped together enough money for college" |
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Synonyms: scrape, scrape up |
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Related Words: accumulate, collect, pull in |
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(verb) get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter" |
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Synonyms: find, get hold, line up |
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Related Words: acquire, get |
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(verb) gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" |
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Synonyms: muster, muster up, rally, summon |
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Related Words: collect, garner, gather, pull together |
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(verb) move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire" |
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Synonyms: arise, go up, lift, move up, rise |
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Related Words: chandelle, climb, climb up, come up, go, go up, locomote, mount, move, rise, rocket, skyrocket, soar, soar up, soar upwards, steam, surge, travel, uplift, zoom |
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