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BRING UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
Example:
boot your computer
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "bring up" is one way to...):
resuscitate; revive (cause to regain consciousness)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make reference to
Example:
His name was mentioned in connection with the invention
Synonyms:
advert; bring up; cite; mention; name; refer
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "bring up" is one way to...):
have in mind; mean; think of (intend to refer to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring up"):
commend; remember (mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship)
speak of the devil (mention someone's name who just then appears)
remember (mention favorably, as in prayer)
cite; quote (refer to for illustration or proof)
touch on (refer to or discuss briefly)
appeal; invoke (cite as an authority; resort to)
namedrop (refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them)
bring up; raise (put forward for consideration or discussion)
drag up; dredge up (mention something unpleasant from the past)
cross-refer (refer from one entry to another, as in catalogues, books, and lists)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Put forward for consideration or discussion
Example:
bring up an unpleasant topic
Synonyms:
bring up; raise
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "bring up" is one way to...):
advert; bring up; cite; mention; name; refer (make reference to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Example:
call down the spirits from the mountain
Synonyms:
arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "bring up" is one way to...):
call up; summon (cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively)
Verb group:
call forth; evoke; kick up; provoke (evoke or provoke to appear or occur)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring up"):
bless (give a benediction to)
anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; damn; imprecate; maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Cause to come to a sudden stop
Example:
The noise brought her up in shock
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "bring up" is one way to...):
stop (cause to stop)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 6
Meaning:
Raise from a lower to a higher position
Example:
Lift a load
Synonyms:
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "bring up" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Cause:
arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring up"):
erect; rear (cause to rise up)
gather up; lift up; pick up (take and lift upward)
boost; hike; hike up (increase)
heighten (increase the height of)
leaven; prove; raise (cause to puff up with a leaven)
chin; chin up (raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar)
pinnacle (raise on or as if on a pinnacle)
skid (elevate onto skids)
underlay (raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type)
levitate (cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity)
pump (raise (gases or fluids) with a pump)
hoist (move from one place to another by lifting)
hoist; run up (raise)
trice; trice up (raise with a line)
hoist; lift; wind (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help)
kick up (cause to rise by kicking)
shoulder (lift onto one's shoulders)
jack; jack up (lift with a special device)
get up (cause to rise)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
Sentence example:
The men bring up the chairs
Sense 7
Meaning:
Promote from a lower position or rank
Example:
This player was brought up to the major league
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "bring up" is one way to...):
advance; elevate; kick upstairs; promote; raise; upgrade (give a promotion to or assign to a higher position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 8
Meaning:
Look after a child until it is an adult
Example:
bring up children
Synonyms:
bring up; nurture; parent; raise; rear
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Cause:
grow up (become an adult)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bring up"):
fledge (feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight)
cradle (bring up from infancy)
foster (bring up under fosterage; of children)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
I was their plaything and their idol, and something better—their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I had been looking about me in the poultry-yard, and was just coming out, when who should I see but Dick Jackson making up to the servants' hall-door with two bits of deal board in his hand, bringing them to father, you may be sure; mother had chanced to send him of a message to father, and then father had bid him bring up them two bits of board, for he could not no how do without them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"Go," she told him, "and bring up Negook and one other Indian. Michael's going to confess. Make them come. Take the rifle along and bring them up at the point of it if you have to."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
On Enceladus, bubbles of gas, rising through miles of ocean, could bring up organic material from depths, where they could form a thin film floating on the ocean surface and in cracks of vents, in the interior of the moon, beneath its icy shell.
(Complex Organics Bubble up from Enceladus, NASA)
With Venus so warm and cozy, if you have to bring up a touchy topic with your partner, this would be the month to do it.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
And when he had spoken these words, the old man was changed into a poodle dog, and had a gold collar round his neck, and the cooks were ordered to bring up some live coals, and these he ate, until the flames broke forth from his throat.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
They also bring up information that was hidden or unknown to anyone, including you, but that you need to know to protect yourself.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
However, Mercury’s position retrograde may delay things or bring up inaccuracies, so be patient and watch over details.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If you have an immigration hearing or a legal case pending, the days following this new moon could bring up difficulties you don’t anticipate.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
This might bring up some tensions.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
