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View synonyms for come up

come up

verb

  1. to come to a place regarded as higher
  2. (of the sun) to rise
  3. to begin

    a wind came up

  4. to be regurgitated or vomited
  5. to present itself or be discussed

    that question will come up again

  6. to begin a term, esp one's first term, at a college or university
  7. to appear from out of the ground

    my beans have come up early this year

  8. informal.
    to win

    have your premium bonds ever come up?

  9. come up against
    to be faced with; come into conflict or competition with
  10. come up to
    to equal or meet a standard

    that just doesn't come up to scratch

  11. come up with
    to produce or find

    she always comes up with the right answer

“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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Example Sentences

And suddenly, we were able to come up with all these scenes for it.

We were on her roof talking and trying to come up with ideas, to think of alternatives to renting a studio.

Also, your nose is in front of your face and the sun will come up tomorrow.

The cops had come up short, unable to find the two men in a sea of several hundred thousand law-abiding people.

And – although we did not go to the Willard Hotel – the subject of lobbyists did come up.

An old Indian woman, the same whose house they had hired in Saboba, had come up to live with Ramona.

If he went to bed, and sent for a doctor, surely Allcraft would believe him; and in pity would come up and do the business.

And seeing this bunch is heading right toward us, we might as well take it easy here till they come up.

Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

Seems as if K. was beginning to come up against those political forces which have ever been a British Commander's bane.

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