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

And visitors can bring up to $100 worth of Cuban cigars back to the U.S. with them.

From The Daily Beast

What better way to bring up a serious issue without commandeering the meal?

From The Daily Beast

Another study gender-pay-gap truthers bring up is one that found that young women in some cities are actually paid more than men.

From The Daily Beast

One press of a button and the app will bring up driving directions to a safer location.

From The Daily Beast

I was debating whether to bring up Chuck Norris or Scientology first, and I went with Chuck Norris.

From The Daily Beast

How shall we, how can we virtuously bring up our motherless little sister?

From Project Gutenberg

Do you think thats a good way to bring up girlsletting them go to work so early in life?

From Project Gutenberg

And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

From Project Gutenberg

If an artisan has taken a son to bring up, and has caused him to learn his handicraft, no one has any claim.

From Project Gutenberg

His wife was trying to run the place and to bring up several children, whose condition had aroused the mother instinct in Helen.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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