read up

/ riːd /

verb

1. adverbwhen intr, often foll byon to acquire information about (a subject) by reading intensively

Idioms and Phrases

Study or learn by reading, as in I don't know much about childhood illnesses, but I can always read up on them . [First half of 1800s]

Example Sentences

Cardwell might have been well advised to read up on the entire enterprise.

From The Daily Beast

It was this, which Malhi read up on during a family trip to India last year, which spurred on his work.

From The Daily Beast

Had they not written the destiny of that babe by the desert spring in the same characters I read up there to-night?

From Project Gutenberg

I left you to rest and read up La Dame aux Camélias; not meditate on mortality.

From Project Gutenberg

I thought yuh knew the horse—the way yuh read up his pedigree—till I seen yuh mount him.

From Project Gutenberg

If the subject cannot read up to the twenty-foot line, nearsightedness or astigmatism is indicated.

From Project Gutenberg

I condescended to read up the guide-book, and put myself in the hands of the housekeeper.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• consider
• examine
• learn
• ponder
• pore over
• read
• think