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Open up   /ˈoʊpən əp/   Listen
Open up

verb
1.
Cause to open or to become open.  Synonym: open.
2.
Become available.  Synonym: open.
3.
Make available.  Synonym: open.
4.
Open up an area or prepare a way.  Synonym: pioneer.
5.
Start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning.  Synonym: open.
6.
Become open.  Synonym: open.
7.
Talk freely and without inhibition.





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... would soon become uninhabitable, as there would be no provision for renewing the air, so the Otter proceeds to form a second passage from the ceiling of the room to the ground, thus forming a ventilation tube. In order that this may not prove a cause of danger, it is always made to open up in the midst of brushwood or in a ...
— The Industries of Animals • Frederic Houssay
... aqueduct carries the canal here across the river by ten arches. It is also at present in contemplation to unite the Genesee and Alleghany rivers, by a canal of more than 100 miles in extent, and which would open up a valuable trade with the upper part of the Ohio Valley. I have no doubt that it will be carried into effect, or perhaps a railroad substituted. Close upon the verge of the precipice at the fall, is observed a small islet or green knoll, from whence poor Sam Patch took his final plunge. Sam, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, No. 577 - Volume 20, Number 577, Saturday, November 24, 1832 • Various
... they send!" cried Mr. Durban. "We will have to fire at them now. Open up with your ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle • Victor Appleton
... holiday trip to New Zealand, has just told me an amusing anecdote, for the literal truth of which he vouches. A couple of young Englishmen fresh from Oxford came to Melbourne in the course of a trip round the world to open up their minds! For fear of a libel suit I may at once say I am not alluding to the Messrs. Chamberlain. They brought letters of introduction to Professor S——, who proposed, according to the custom of the place, to 'show them round.' 'Have ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
... which I had started, required a good deal of energy, but I let no grass grow under my feet and went frequently to Tapah in order to open up a sale ...
— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti


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