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LAND UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Finally be or do something
Example:
he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
Synonyms:
end up; fetch up; finish; finish up; land up; wind up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "land up" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Sense 2
Meaning:
Block with earth, as after a landslide
Synonyms:
earth up; land up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "land up" is one way to...):
block; close up; impede; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude (block passage through)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
