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View synonyms for bring up

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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