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Roll up

verb

Form into a cylinder by rolling. Synonym: furl.

Get or gather together. Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up. "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis" , "She rolled up a small fortune"

Arrive in a vehicle:.

Make into a bundle. Synonyms: bundle, bundle up.

Close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle.

Form a cylinder by rolling. Synonym: wrap up.

Show certain properties when being rolled. Synonym: roll. "Dried-out tobacco rolls badly"

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"Roll up" Quotes from Famous Books

... having science patronised by these fellows who don't know anything about it. If they'd once roll up their sleeves and do some actual work they'd give up that idea of being so easily graduated. But they want to get where they'll not have to work. Philosophy's ...

— The Glory Of The Conquered • Susan Glaspell

... simplicity, and good sense. In his "Rehearsal" Buckingham quizzed fairly enough the fume and bombast of Dryden's tragedies. But Dryden was already echoing his critics' prayer for a year "of prose and sense." He was tired of being "the Sisyphus of the stage, to roll up a stone with endless labour, which is perpetually falling down again." "To the stage," he owned, "my genius never much inclined me," and he had long had dreams, stirred no doubt by his admiration for Milton, of undertaking some epic story. But need held him to the boards and years ...

— History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) - Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 • John Richard Green

... cut the fish into four pieces. Roll up each piece and pin with a toothpick. Soak for an hour in oil and lemon-juice. Roll in seasoned crumbs, then in beaten egg, then in crumbs. Put into a baking-pan, upon thin slices of salt pork, sprinkle ...

— How to Cook Fish • Olive Green

... see that handsome, well-built young theologue—it didn't seem as if he could have been more than a boy freshly out of the seminary—strip off his coat and roll up his sleeves and go to it like a veteran surgeon. In a few minutes, with such help as I could render, he had the cut cleaned and bandaged, the red face sponged off, and the worst of the street dirt brushed from ...

— Branded • Francis Lynde

... supply and the Doctor endeavoured to raise them still higher by the prospect of Hepburn's being able to kill a deer next day, as they had seen and even fired at several near the house. He endeavoured too to rouse us into some attention to the comfort of our apartment, and particularly to roll up in the day our blankets which (expressly for the convenience of Adam and Samandre) we had been in the habit of leaving by the fire where we lay on them. The Doctor having brought his prayer-book and testament, some prayers and psalms and portions of scripture appropriate ...

— The Journey to the Polar Sea • John Franklin

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