bring up

verb

1. to care for and train (a child); rear

   we had been brought up to go to church

2. to raise (a subject) for discussion; mention
3. to vomit (food)
4. foll by against to cause (a person) to face or confront
5. foll by to to cause (something) to be of a required standard

Example Sentences

Palmer brings up Beyoncé, whom she views as a role model.

From Los Angeles Times

I love this question because I think it brings up an important point of clarification.

From Salon

The daughter of a police officer and a hospital receptionist, the actress was born and brought up in Chessington, Greater London.

From BBC

Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case that would have restricted nationwide access to mifepristone, conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas both brought up the Comstock Act.

From Salon

And so when my mom brought up that she wanted to take my daughter to church, it felt good to me to kind of reconnect on that level.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• allude to
• broach
• discuss
• introduce
• propose
• raise
• refer
• submit
• touch on