verb
- Bring forth, usually something desirable.
- usage: "The committee came up with some interesting recommendations"
- Result or issue.
- usage: "A slight unpleasantness arose from this discussion"
- synonyms: arise
- Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
- usage: "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here"; "come out of the closet"; "come into the room"
- synonyms: come
- Come to the surface.
- Originate or come into being.
- usage: "a question arose"
- Move upward.
- usage: "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
- Be mentioned.
- usage: "These names came up in the discussion"
- Start running, functioning, or operating.
- usage: "the lights went on"; "the computer came up"
- Get something or somebody for a specific purpose.
- usage: "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"
- Come up, of celestial bodies.
- usage: "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
- Gather (money or other resources) together over time.
- usage: "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
- Gather or bring together.
- usage: "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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