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bring up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forthverb

    summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

    "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"

  2. rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parentverb

    bring up

    "raise a family"; "bring up children"

  3. bring upverb

    promote from a lower position or rank

    "This player was brought up to the major league"

  4. raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring upverb

    raise from a lower to a higher position

    "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

  5. bring upverb

    cause to come to a sudden stop

    "The noise brought her up in shock"

  6. raise, bring upverb

    put forward for consideration or discussion

    "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic"

  7. mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, referverb

    make reference to

    "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention"

  8. boot, reboot, bring upverb

    cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes

    "boot your computer"

Wiktionary

  1. bring upverb

    To mention.

  2. bring upverb

    To raise (children).

  3. bring upverb

    To turn on power or start, as of a machine.

  4. bring upverb

    To vomit.

  5. bring upverb

    To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.

ChatGPT

  1. bring up

    To bring up means to mention, introduce or discuss a particular subject, topic, or issue. It can also mean to raise or care for a child until they are grown up, or to cause something to appear or be seen, often on a computer screen.

Anagrams for bring up »

  1. burping

  2. upbring

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bring up in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bring up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of bring up in a Sentence

  1. Amy Loper:

    Society is in such a downward spiral and everyone is willing to go along on the ride instead of trying to bring up their kids and actually parent.

  2. Rahul Verma:

    I feel the BJP is hell-bent on running this campaign on national security, basically, if they bring up any other thing, they would be on difficult terrain, like on economic issues or on their performance.

  3. Karen Ngunjiri:

    That was a deal breaker for me, him being Chinese ? Not a problem. But him not being a Christian African, I thought that was going to be a big issue. How would we bring up our children ?

  4. Justin Trudeau:

    We agreed that it is something that we are going to make sure we do bring up with our friends and allies around the world, we need to make sure that terrorists understand that they cannot continue to fund their crimes and their violence (by) taking innocents hostage.

  5. Melanie Benjamin:

    Native American did bring up that whole issue about that( Pocahontas) label, and my advice to Native American -- and I used an example -- is that in Indian country, Native American tribes are very community-oriented, native American tribes are those types of people where Native American tribes will embrace you as part of Native American tribes community and then Native American tribes will recognize you as Native American tribes community from there on.


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