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Come up   /kəm əp/   Listen
Come up

verb
1.
Bring forth, usually something desirable.
2.
Result or issue.  Synonym: arise.
3.
Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.  Synonym: come.  "Come with me to the Casbah" , "Come down here!" , "Come out of the closet!" , "Come into the room"
4.
Come to the surface.  Synonyms: rise, rise up, surface.
5.
Originate or come into being.  Synonyms: arise, bob up.
6.
Move upward.  Synonyms: arise, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise.  "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"
7.
Be mentioned.
8.
Start running, functioning, or operating.  Synonyms: come on, go on.  "The computer came up"
9.
Get something or somebody for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: find, get hold, line up.  "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"
10.
Come up, of celestial bodies.  Synonyms: ascend, rise, uprise.  "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..." , "Jupiter ascends"
11.
Gather (money or other resources) together over time.  Synonyms: scrape, scrape up, scratch.  "They scratched a meager living"
12.
Gather or bring together.  Synonyms: muster, muster up, rally, summon.  "She rallied her intellect" , "Summon all your courage"



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"Come up" Quotes from Famous Books



... There were itching fingers among the neighbours, and sharp wits too in the family itself, but Jared shrewdly held his own. He climbed into the saddle and stuck there. He cajoled when he could, and browbeat when he must. "No, he ain't no fool," said Cousin Jehiel, who had come up from Bainesville, with his eye on a certain harvester and binder. "He may make the farm pay, even ...
— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller
... come up with the officers of his two battalions and a captain, a sergeant, a corporal, ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... necessary to attend the House of Lords. It was settled that we should spend the interval discussing the land purchase report, for which his presence was not essential. Redmond, whose health was still bad, did not come up to Dublin. All this gave time for agitation, ...
— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn
... and sent him to bed just when he was going to water his flowers. We've got Blue Nemophila and Mignonette, and Venus's Looking-glass, and many other seeds; The Nemophila comes up spotted, which is how we know it from the weeds. At least it's sure to come up if the hens haven't scratched it up first. But when it is up the cats roll on it, and that is the worst! I sowed a ring of sweet peas, and the last time I looked they were coming nicely on, Just sprouting white, and I put them safely back; but when Jack looked he found ...
— Verses for Children - and Songs for Music • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... been ill and the visit to Bath had been postponed, and after a fortnight alone at Ardayre she had come up to London. She had too much ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn


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